H.Q. Frost Quotes

I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

We ran as if to meet the moon.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Kitten, your hands are heaven and your eyes are my home.

I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers.

First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.

You can run from the grave, but you can't hide.

If you run from me, I will chase you, and I'll find you.

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

The sidelong glance is what you depend on.

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

That’s right, you nasty little vixen, bite me harder." Ian urged.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

I'm sorry I can't give you the normal life you wanted, but I promise to adore you every day for the rest of your new one.

The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.

If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

Nature is always hinting at us.

You're my Red Reaper, and I've missed you terribly.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

A good teammate will correct somebody when they're doing something wrong. A friend might not say anything, a good teammate does.

Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

An idea is a feat of association.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Where are you, bloodsuckers? Here, fangy, fangy, fangy...

I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

I was slumped next to him. He didn't pay any attention to me, but kept snickering as he drove. It was annoying. I had PMS and a test this morning. Boy, had he picked the wrong girl.

You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

You see, you don’t want me to love you. You want the version you’ve made up. The knight, even though I’m the dragon and I always will be.

As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors.

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.