Sinclair Lewis Thinking Quotations

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

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.

When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

I 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 — and we're going to try our hands at it.