Mantrap Quotes

“Have men and women always got to hurt each other this way?' cried Ralph.
'Yes. Anybody that ain't content with being a peddler is going to hurt himself and everybody else, I guess,' said Joe.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap

“You poor kids! You talking children, that don't know anything about anything that matters! Don't you see? I can't play either of your games. I'm ME! I'm going to be me! Oh, if you do love me a little, let me be me! Good-by.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap

“Yet all this while the power of thought, the pull of conscience, were feeble beside Alverna's youth. It was his first love; the first time in his life that he had been roused to through away caution and dignity.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap

“He had never found that more than five whiskeys and soda were beneficial to law-practice.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap

“Humor is next to Godliness.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap

“A fellow learns a lot of this fancy stuff that Ralph calls philosophy when he spends a few winters shut up in a cabin with just one other guy, trapping.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap

“As he watched her sleeping, under wretched and insufficient blankets, in the cold nights which swooped down after the panting sun-drenched days, his dry heart blossomed in tenderness. . . . To think that he had once esteemed people because they understood Goossens's music or James Joyce's fiction, because they wore sleek clothes and were clever at the use of forks, because they could set up wooden words as a barricade against roaring life!”
― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap

“These folks from New York are all so high and mighty, with their skyscrapers and banquets and everything that t if we don't guess they come from there when we first lay an eye on 'em, we just show ourselves as awful rubes. Oh, yes! Yes. You can always tell 'em by their touch-me-not ways.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap

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― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap