Frances Parkinson Keyes famous quotes

03-28-2025

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#People #Matter #Process
... a compensation is something which does not quite compensate ...
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#Doe #Compensation
Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#Mother #Men #Levels
the only door into her bedroom led through the church.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#Doors #Church #Bedroom
I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#Schedules #Telephones #Allergic
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#Spiritual #Matter #Realist
Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#Heart #Opportunity #Desire
scales are the grammar of music.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#Music #Scales #Grammar
One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#Friends #Doe #Trouble
Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#Acceptance #Challenges #Inferiority
A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#Wrinkles #Half #Faces
The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#Wind #Snow #Wicked
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!
-- Frances Parkinson Keyes

#Lying #Medicine #Patents

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