Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. – Sinclair Lewis
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read. – Sinclair Lewis
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. – Sinclair Lewis
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. – Sinclair Lewis
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. – Sinclair Lewis
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. – Sinclair Lewis
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. – Sinclair Lewis
