"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
— Sinclair Lewis

"It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. "
— Sinclair Lewis

"We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all."
— Sinclair Lewis

"Winter is not a season, it's an occupation."
— 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."
— Sinclair Lewis

"If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest ment in the world would be deck hands on trapm steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries."
— Sinclair Lewis (Dodsworth)

"Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-"
— Sinclair Lewis

"She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them."
— 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."
— Sinclair Lewis

"The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon."
— Sinclair Lewis (Elmer Gantry)

""You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.""
— Sinclair Lewis (Babbitt)

"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless."
— Sinclair Lewis

"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..."
— Sinclair Lewis

"The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected.

—chapter 8"
— Sinclair Lewis (Babbitt)

"He said brokenly many things beautiful in their common-ness."
— Sinclair Lewis

"When Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."
— Sinclair Lewis