10 Quotes by Frances Parkinson Keyes

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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