Welcome to the web’s most comprehensive site of quotations by women. 43,939 quotations are searchable by topic, by author's name, or by keyword. Many of them appear in no other collection. And new ones are added continually.
Search by Topic:
Find quotations by TOPIC (coffee, love, dogs)
or search alphabetically below.
Search by Last Name:
Search by Keyword:
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.”
-
“... the only door into her bedroom led through the church.”
-
“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.”
-
“Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.”
-
“ ... a compensation is something which does not quite compensate ... ”
-
“... scales are the grammar of music.”
-
“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.”
-
“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.”
-
“A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.”
Frances Parkinson Keyes, U.S. writer, columnist
(1885 - 1970)