M. E. W. Sherwood Quotes

• 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 terraces and villas of Monte Carlo I do not wish to see them. There is nothing beyond the semi-tropical vegetation, the projecting promontories into the Mediterranean, the all-embracing sweep of the ocean, the olive groves, and the enchanting climate! One gets tired of the word beautiful.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Beautiful, Ocean, Tired

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• War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

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  Sweet, Peace, War

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• This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!

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  Happy, Divorce, Lunch

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• ... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters of the day work for the education of the crowd?

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  Education, Art, Crowds

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• 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 human race.

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  Respect, Queens, Believe

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• ... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.

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  People, Heaven, Regard

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• English people ... are very kind, very friendly, interested in a general way, and consider us a great, wonderful, unknown sort of Australia, and that is all.

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  Australia, People, Friendly

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• How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House.

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  Men, White, Office

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• 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 coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.

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  Country, Talking, Quick Wit

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• ... 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.

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  Cities, Simplicity, Unions

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• The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.

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  Government, Office, Simplicity

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• A principios de los años cuarenta y cincuenta casi todo el mundo "tenía lo suficiente para vivir", y las jóvenes vestían bien con cien dólares al año. Las hijas del hombre más rico de Boston vestían con escrupulosa sencillez, y la esposa y la madre poseían un brocado que les sirvió durante varios años. La ostentación se consideraba vulgar. Ahora, ¡ay! sólo Queen Victoria se atreve a ir desaliñado.

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  Daughter, Mother, Fashion

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• Debería decir que el tacto valía mucho más que la riqueza como camino hacia el liderazgo.... Me refiero a esa sutil aprensión que enseña a una persona a hacer y decir lo correcto en el momento adecuado. Coexiste con cualidades muy ordinarias y, sin embargo, muchos grandes genios carecen de ella. De todas las cualidades humanas, la considero la más conveniente, no siempre la más elevada; sin embargo, preferiría tenerla a muchas otras cualidades más brillantes.

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  Leadership, Mean, Shining

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• Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.

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  Land, Impossible, Intense

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• ...I think the Americans are the only people who have good beds. I consider the American bedroom unparalleled for freshness, comfort, and cleanliness. It is worth going all over Europe in order to come home to one's own bed.

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  Viajes, Hogar, Pensamiento

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• The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!

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  Lying, Dirty, Clothes

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• 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. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.

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  Recuerdos, Gente, Dar

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• If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.

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  Girl, Learning, Blow

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• La Abadía de Westminster es la naturaleza cristalizada en una forma convencional por el hombre, con sus penas, sus alegrías, sus fracasos y su búsqueda del Gran Espíritu. Es un réquiem congelado, con la oración de una nación siempre en muda música ascendente.

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  Prayer, Men, Joy

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

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  Work, Museums, Appreciate

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• Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.

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  Strong, New York, Circles

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• Las mujeres jóvenes, ¿qué no pueden aprender, qué no pueden lograr, con el anexo de la Universidad de Columbia abierto para ellas? En esta gran perspectiva para el desarrollo intelectual más amplio de las mujeres veo el gran rayo de sol del futuro.

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  Future, Intellectual, Academia

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• The American is said to become full-flavored, and in time a most all-round man, through the polish which Europe can impart.

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  Men, Europe, Said

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• I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.

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  Squares, Noble, Ugly

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