I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly… — 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
To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers. — Frances Trollope Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
“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
I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage. — Frances Trollope Copy Share
I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on… — Frances Trollope Copy Share
The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing… — Frances Trollope Copy Share
