Frances Trollope

The American spring is by no means so agreeable as the American autumn; both move with faltering step, and slow; but this…

— Frances Trollope

To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.

— Frances Trollope

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser…

— Frances Trollope

It is rarely [Americans] dine in society, except in taverns and boarding-houses. Then they eat with the greatest possible rapidity, and in…

— Frances Trollope

it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They…

— Frances Trollope

there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in…

— Frances Trollope

It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should…

— Frances Trollope

... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her…

— Frances Trollope

I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of…

— Frances Trollope

I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians.... Were it not for the churches,...…

— Frances Trollope

Is it to be imagined ... that women were made for no other purpose than to fabricate sweetmeats and gingerbread, construct shirts,…

— Frances Trollope

“Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that…

— Frances Trollope

I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in…

— Frances Trollope

I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the…

— Frances Trollope

The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee…

— Frances Trollope

I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if…

— Frances Trollope

A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the…

— Frances Trollope

All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of…

— Frances Trollope

Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that…

— Frances Trollope

Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in [American] society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the…

— Frances Trollope

[On New York City:] Were all America like this fair city, and all, no, only a small proportion of its population like…

— Frances Trollope

Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof…

— Frances Trollope

Throughout all ranks of society, from the successful merchant, which is the highest, to the domestic serving man, which is the lowest,…

— Frances Trollope

I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of…

— Frances Trollope

... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young…

— Frances Trollope