Sherwood

Famous quotes containing the word sherwood:

    Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation’s prayer ever in dumb music ascending.
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    Nobody expects him to be normal—he’s a bishop.
    —Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)

    Giles Lacey: I say, old boy, I’m trying to find exactly what your wife does do.
    Maxim de Winter: She sketches a little.
    Giles Lacey: Sketches. Oh not this modern stuff, I hope. You know, portrait of a lamp shade upside down to represent a soul in torment.
    —Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)