Quote

Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-

Sinclair Lewis

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sinclair Lewis
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
Dogs
Dog
Sleep

More quotes by Sinclair Lewis

Image
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Indians, of course, have no theology, and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
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
Image
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called patriotism and love of sport.
Sinclair Lewis