Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Frances Parkinson Keyes

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Last updated on April 20, 2025.

Frances Parkinson Keyes was an American author who wrote about her life as the wife of a U.S. Senator and novels set in New England, Louisiana, and Europe. A convert to Roman Catholicism, her later works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs. Her last name rhymes with "eyes," not "keys."

American - Author | July 21, 1885 - July 3, 1970

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scales are the grammar of music.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

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

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

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

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

Frances Parkinson Keyes