Sinclair Lewis Quotes

Sinclair Lewis Quotes

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There are two insults which no human being will endure:

There are two insults which no human being will endure . . .

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12 Sinclair Lewis Quotes

Sinclair Lewis

He found that he was still not at all certain that he was doing any good, aside from providing the drug of religious hope to timorous folk frightened of hell-fire and afraid to walk alone. ~ Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason. ~ Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis He was born to be a senator. He never said anything important, and he always said it sonorously. ~ Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis The outhouse was so overmodestly masked with vines and lattice that it was not concealed at all. ~ Main Street by Sinclair Lewis Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers. ~ The Job by Sinclair Lewis His entire system of theology was comprised in the Bible, which he never read, and the Methodist Church, which he rarely attended. ~ The Job by Sinclair Lewis There are two insults which no human being will endure: the assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. ~ Main Street by Sinclair Lewis "There are two races of people, only two, and they live side by side. His calls mine 'neurotic'; mine calls his 'stupid'." ~ Main Street by Sinclair Lewis She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them. ~ Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. ~ Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

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