1885-1951, First American Novelist to win the Nobel Prize for literature
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis – [Advertising]
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
Sinclair Lewis – [Management]
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 – [Arts and Artists]
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis – [Patriotism]
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Sinclair Lewis – [Literature]
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Sinclair Lewis – [Courage]
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ''The trouble with this country is…''
Sinclair Lewis – [America]
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 – [Critics and Criticism]
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
Sinclair Lewis – [Love]