I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies). — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the meeting is sufficient to paralyze conversation. The women invariably herd together at one part of the room, and… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
The American spring is by no means so agreeable as the American autumn; both move with faltering step, and slow; but this lingering pace,… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in total silence. — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians.... Were it not for the churches,... Ithink there… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Is it to be imagined ... that women were made for no other purpose than to fabricate sweetmeats and gingerbread, construct shirts, darn stockings,… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
“Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
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