“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.” PeopleGivingDoeMemoriesExistenceQuietDinnerExcitementDullRecurringUnemotionalPalimpsestRemote Places Author: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 circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.” GivingEnoughStrongNew YorkQuietCourtDemocraticCirclesPlentyIntimacyRomeSunlightDiplomaticStrong PersonEntourage Author: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 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.” MayMadeStatesGovernmentMightDesireHouseUnitedRoomsLordUnited StatesToo MuchSceneQuietOfficeDignitySimplicityArchitectureAbsenceMannersTitlesAcknowledgeThrownSenateMagnificentReposeBadgesHouse Of Lords Author: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, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.” DoeStatesCitiesMaterialsProudQuietConversationUnionsSimplicityProsperityIntellectIntimacyElsewhereDelightfulGrandeurProminence Author:M. E. W. Sherwood