299 Quotes by Sinclair Lewis

I 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

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.

Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.