Quotes from Elmer Gantry — Sinclair Lewis
1885–1951 United States
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Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.
Elmer Gantry (1927)
He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason.
Elmer Gantry (1927)
He was born to be a senator. He never said anything important, and he always said it sonorously.
Elmer Gantry (1927)
He was still not at all certain that he was doing any good, aside from providing the drug of religious hope to timorous folk frightened of hell-fire and afraid to walk alone.
Elmer Gantry (1927)
The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
Elmer Gantry (1927)
A proper school should teach nothing but bookkeeping, agriculture, geometry, dead languages made deader by leaving out all the amusing literature, and the Hebrew Bible as interpreted by men superbly trained to ignore contradictions, men technically called "Fundamentalists".
Elmer Gantry (1927)
The grateful savants had accepted, and they were spending the rest of their lives reading fifteenth-hand opinions, taking pleasant naps, and drooling out to yawning students the anemic and wordy bookishness which they called learning.
Elmer Gantry (1927)