In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose wealth is his sole passport into society. I believe that a habit of respect is good for the… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart. — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence.… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace. — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime. — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
If there is anything so romantic as that castle-palace-fortress of Monaco I have not seen it. If there is anything more deliciousthan the lovely… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy,… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
