Sinclair Lewis Quotations | Page 2

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.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

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.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

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

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.