ASSERT in Classic Quotes

1  She asserted that it proved him to be a man of the bold free West.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

2  Kennicott asserted that Westlake and McGanum and their contaminated families were tricky, but Carol had found them gracious.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

3  She asserted that she was going to stage a musical comedy, that she preferred cafe parfait to beefsteak, that she hoped Dr. Kennicott would never lose his ability to make love to charming women, and that she had a pair of gold stockings.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

4  Therefore all men who succeed in painting in Paris or in finance in New York at last become weary of smart women, return to their native towns, assert that cities are vicious, marry their childhood sweethearts and, presumably, joyously abide in those towns until death.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII

5  She asserted, "This silly lobby is too florid," and simultaneously she admired it: the onyx columns with gilt capitals, the crown-embroidered velvet curtains at the restaurant door, the silk-roped alcove where pretty girls perpetually waited for mysterious men, the two-pound boxes of candy and the variety of magazines at the news-stand.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

6  She felt old and detached through high-school commencement week, which is the fete of youth in Gopher Prairie; through baccalaureate sermon, senior Parade, junior entertainment, commencement address by an Iowa clergyman who asserted that he believed in the virtue of virtuousness, and the procession of Decoration Day, when the few Civil War veterans followed Champ Perry, in his rusty forage-cap, along the spring-powdered road to the cemetery.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII