Sinclair Lewis Men Quotations

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.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.