The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine… — M. E. W. Sherwood Beggar 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… — M. E. W. Sherwood Congress 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… — M. E. W. Sherwood Academia 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 Cultivation 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,… — M. E. W. Sherwood Dinner 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… — M. E. W. Sherwood Absence 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 Antiwar Copy Share Image
To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime. — M. E. W. Sherwood Appreciate 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… — M. E. W. Sherwood Accepted 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… — M. E. W. Sherwood Circles 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… — M. E. W. Sherwood Beautiful Copy Share Image
... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and… — M. E. W. Sherwood Cities Copy Share Image
If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee. — M. E. W. Sherwood Blow Copy Share Image
I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches… — M. E. W. Sherwood Apprehension Copy Share Image
Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for… — M. E. W. Sherwood Abbey Copy Share Image
In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred… — M. E. W. Sherwood Alas Copy Share Image
... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters… — M. E. W. Sherwood Art Copy Share Image
It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose… — M. E. W. Sherwood Believe Copy Share Image
English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of… — M. E. W. Sherwood Australia Copy Share Image
...I think the Americans are the only people who have good beds. I consider the American bedroom unparalleled for freshness, comfort, and… — M. E. W. Sherwood Bed Copy Share Image
How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling… — M. E. W. Sherwood Death Copy Share Image
... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by… — M. E. W. Sherwood American people Copy Share Image
