H.Q. Frost Quotes

The only way round is through.

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.

If your neighbors did an analysis of your life, what would they learn about the kingdom?

The only way out is through.

The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are.

Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.

British business is disappointed that the MPC felt unable to act more boldly to counter the worsening economic circumstances and the sharp slowdown in the pace of economic activity,.

As a quarterback, I've been the guy that people were yelling for; I've been the guy that's been booed in my own stadium.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.

You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing.

Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

I'm sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don't think I've been the same in anything I've done, and I want to keep that up.

Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?

The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere."

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

I always entertain great hopes.

If you introduce yourself to anyone as Mrs. Dracula, I'll bite you in a manner you won't enjoy.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

What we live by we die by.

The only way around is through.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

He leaned over and kissed me. A long, deep kiss filled with promise and passion. I loved the way he kissed me. Like he was drinking in the taste of me and still coming back thirsty.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

I might be the only chick in the group, but that didn't make me the damsel in distress.

Friends might be rare but they’re not irreplaceable

Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.

Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

I thawt I thaw a putty tat.” “I did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he grinned unpleasantly at me. “Now, then, luv, let’s get down to business