Sinclair Lewis Quotes

Sinclair Lewis (10)

Birth:	7th February, 1885
Death:	10th January, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer, Playwriter

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  It is impossible to discourage real writers, they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impossible, Discourage

• Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men

• People will buy anything that is ‘one to a customer.’

  Sinclair Lewis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Buy, Anything, Will, Customer

• When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Nationalism, Control

• Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Sage, Poet, May, Whatever, Orator, Say, Still, Old

• If noble death be virtue’s chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom’s crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Death And Dying, Nobility, Honor, Virtue, Fortune

• There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Topics in Insult

• can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Tags in Sermons

• Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Tags in Advertising

•  When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Religious Freedom, Patriotism