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 pro…

- Frances Parkinson Keyes

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

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

- Frances Parkinson Keyes

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

- Frances Parkinson Keyes

The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proport…

- Frances Parkinson Keyes

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

- Frances Parkinson Keyes

scales are the grammar of music.

- Frances Parkinson Keyes

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

- Frances Parkinson Keyes

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