Sherwood

Famous quotes containing the word sherwood:

“The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

“We all felt that the men about us were making history, and that we were looking at heroes, if we could only find them out.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

“The radical changes in society from the small, well-considered hundreds to the countless thousands have of course destroyed the neighborly character of the strange conglomerate. It is more ornamental and much more luxurious now than then.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)