299 Quotes by Sinclair Lewis

Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.

As a newspaper man, Doremus remembered that the only reporters who misrepresented and concealed facts more unscrupulously than the Capitalists were the Communists.

It was not an esthetic room. Though Frank Shallard might have come to admire pictures, great music, civilized furniture, he had been trained to regard them as worldly, and to content himself with art which ‘presented a message,’ to regard ‘Les Miserables’ as superior because the bishop was a kind man, and ‘The Scarlet Letter’ as a poor book because the heroine was sinful and the author didn’t mind.

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

The Wonderlust – probably it’s a worse affliction than the Wanderlust.

I love America, but I don’t like it.

The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trousers-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever.

On the walk, like shredded lovely flesh, were the petals of the last gallant rose.

Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-.