Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt Quotes

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

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Well, if that’s what you call being at peace, for heaven’s sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.