It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better 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 world, produces an effect which must b…

- Frances Trollope

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

- 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, an…

- Frances Trollope

... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young women, whose bread depends upon their l…

- Frances Trollope

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

- Frances Trollope

When newspapers are the principal vehicles of the wit and wisdom of a people, the higher graces of composition can hardly be looked for.

- 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 the g…

- Frances Trollope

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

- Frances Trollope