Dutch Quote by Frances Trollope

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

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 and rougher…

— 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 total silence.

— Frances Trollope

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

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

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

... 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

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

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

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

“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