Sherwood

Famous quotes containing the word sherwood:

    ... what a strange time it was! Who knew his neighbor? Who was a traitor and who a patriot? The hero of to-day was the suspected of to-morrow.... There were traitors in the most secret council-chambers. Generals, senators, and secretaries looked at each other with suspicious eyes.... It is a great wonder that the city of Washington was not betrayed, burned, destroyed a half-dozen times.
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    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)

    Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderlay again.
    —Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)