Sherwood

Famous quotes containing the word sherwood:

    The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.
    —Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)

    ... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    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)