Sinclair Lewis Quotes
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927.
Nixon was an excellent orator even in his first effort at politics. It was when Nixon used that skill to smear his opponents that the admiration of his opponents turned to resentment and eventually this and his lack of morality in politics led the American people to turn on him.
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wars. He is also respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H. L. Mencken wrote of him, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds."
