Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sinclair Lewis
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
Name
Usa
Names
Fascism
American
Flag
United
Flags
Comes
Novelists
America
Claim
States
Claims
Americanism
Percent
Wrapped
More quotes by Sinclair Lewis
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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.
Sinclair Lewis
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
Sinclair Lewis
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
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 disobeying it.
Sinclair Lewis
What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature's hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God's marvelous firmament!
Sinclair Lewis
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
Sinclair Lewis
In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
Sinclair Lewis
Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.
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
Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
Sinclair Lewis
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
Sinclair Lewis
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
That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
Sinclair Lewis
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
Sinclair Lewis
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
Sinclair Lewis
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
Sinclair Lewis
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
Sinclair Lewis
There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.
Sinclair Lewis
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
Sinclair Lewis