299 Quotes by Sinclair Lewis

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

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

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.