Quotes by M. E. W. Sherwood

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.

Cities

Simplicity

Unions

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

Heaven

People

Regard

… 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?

Art

Crowds

Education

…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.

Home

Thinking

Travel

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.

Australia

Friendly

People

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

Impossible

Intense

Land

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.

Men

Office

White

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

Noble

Squares

Ugly

I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership…. I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and say the right thing at the right time. It coexists with very ordinary qualities, and yet many great geniuses are without it. Of all human qualities I consider it the most convenient–not always the highest; yet I would rather have it than many more shining qualities.

Leadership

Mean

Shining

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.

Beautiful

Ocean

Tired

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Appreciate

Art

Australia

Beautiful

Believe

Blow

Circles

Cities

Clothes

Country

Crowds

Daughter

Dirty

Divorce

Education

Europe

Fashion

Friendly

Future

Girl

Giving

Government

Happy

Heaven

Home

Impossible

Intellectual

Intense

Joy

Land

Leadership

Learning

Lunch

Lying

Mean

Memories

Men

Mother

Museums

New York

Noble

Ocean

Office

Peace

People

Prayer

Queens

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Quotes by M. E. W. Sherwood

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.

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

… 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?

…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.

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.

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

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.

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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