“Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.” GossipConfessionMaliceImbecility Author:J. G. Holland
“...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.” PeopleThinkingHomeOrderComfortBedTravelEuropeComing HomeBedroomCleanlinessFreshness Author: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 yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!” EarthLyingPoorPeriodsClothesShoesPrivilegeDirtyRomeBeggarRaggedPicturesque Author: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. 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
“If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.” IfsShouldGirlLearningBlowKnives Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.” MenFormJoySpiritNationsPrayerSorrowSeekingLondonDumbConventionalFrozenGreat SpiritAbbeyAscendingWestminsterRequiemWestminster Abbey Author:M. E. W. Sherwood
“To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.” LooksWorkAppreciateLifetimeBritishLondonMuseumsBritish Museum 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 young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.” YoungAchieveDevelopmentFutureIntellectualUniversityThrownYoung WomenOutlookAcademiaColumbiaIntellectual DevelopmentColumbia University Author: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.” MenSaidEuropeRoundsPolishImpartCultivationSophistication Author:M. E. W. Sherwood