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 LewisHis name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
Sinclair LewisShe did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
Sinclair LewisWhat 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 LewisParis is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
Sinclair LewisI think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now โ and we're going to try our hands at it.
Sinclair Lewis