Frances Parkinson Keyes Quotes

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!

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

Then she felt herself, she said, to enter into the very bosom of God, where she was transformed into her Beloved, so completely that not all the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil could ever separate her from His love...She gave them a conviction that she could find no pleasure on earth except in the contemplation of the divine mercy.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.