Sherwood

Famous quotes containing the word sherwood:

    The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    Time should be imaged with a paint-brush instead of a scythe; he knows how to wield the former even better than the latter.
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)