Domestic Manners of the Americans Quotes

“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 be seen and felt to be understood. If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having, which they do not possess.”
― Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans

“But I sometimes think, sir, that your fences might be in more thorough repair, and your roads in better order, if less time was spent in politics.”
― Frances Milton Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans

“dropsy;”
― Frances Milton Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans