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
Given
Fog
Thought
Protecting
Women
Gossip
Cynical
Religions
Unhappy
Sensitiveness
High
Vagueness
Church
Whining

More quotes by Sinclair Lewis

Image
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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
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
Image
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
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
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
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
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
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
It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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
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
Image
That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Sinclair Lewis
Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis