Sinclair Lewis Professions : Novelist Born : February 7, 1885 Died : January 10, 1951 Browse All Authors Top 111 quotes by Sinclair Lewis 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 done wish people It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living. Sinclair Lewis atheist believe thinking Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. Sinclair Lewis Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, especially if the goods are worthless. Sinclair Lewis Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead. Sinclair Lewis There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble. Sinclair Lewis There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. Sinclair Lewis What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. Sinclair Lewis There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. Sinclair Lewis will never sense-of-humor humor Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. Sinclair Lewis smiles great damn men Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. Sinclair Lewis whatever say old-age age Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors