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!

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  People, Matter, Process

  Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”

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

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Friends, Doe, Trouble

  Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”

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• 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

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• 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

  Frances Parkinson Keyes (1972). “All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• 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

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• A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Doe, Compensation

  Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”

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• the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Doors, Church, Bedroom

  Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• scales are the grammar of music.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Music, Scales, Grammar

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• 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

  Frances Parkinson Keyes (1972). “All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• 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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