Beautiful Quote by M. E. W. 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…

— M. E. W. Sherwood

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

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

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

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

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

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

To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

— M. E. W. Sherwood

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

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

... 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

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