Quotes by Sinclair Lewis

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.

It Can't Happen Here.

What is love? . . . It is the morning and the evening star.

A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.

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. He became a member of the National Institute in 1935.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. Address in Stockholm on receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, December 12, 1930.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, especially if the goods are worthless.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.