Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sinclair Lewis
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Sauk Centre
Minnesota
Harry Sinclair Lewis
Women
Gossip
Cynical
Religions
Unhappy
Sensitiveness
High
Vagueness
Church
Whining
Given
Fog
Thought
Protecting

More quotes by Sinclair Lewis

Image
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
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
Image
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
Sinclair Lewis
Image
To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No it is something dead.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
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
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
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
Image
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
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
Image
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
Image
His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest it is an industry.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Sinclair Lewis