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)

    That’s the whole story of my life: frustration. It’s a chronic disease, and it’s incurable.
    —Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)

    ... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation—the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)