Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

- Sinclair Lewis

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 disobey…

- Sinclair Lewis

Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trou…

- Sinclair Lewis

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

- Sinclair Lewis

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and on…

- Sinclair Lewis

Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.

- Sinclair Lewis

You have more people that love you than you know.

- Sinclair Lewis

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

- Sinclair Lewis

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

- Sinclair Lewis