Florence King Quotes

"Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in."
- Florence King
(Related: Metaphors, Nothing, Writers)

"True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories."
- Florence King
(Related: Memories, Nostalgia)

"Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind."
- Florence King
(Related: Time, American, Meaning, Mind, World)

"The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners."
- Florence King
(Related: Women, Life, American, Lovers, Wit, Witty, Woman)

"People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error."
- Florence King
(Related: Age, People, Dream, American, Error, Living, Right)

"In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order."
- Florence King
(Related: Etiquette, Order)

"I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home."
- Florence King
(Related: Home)

"He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood."
- Florence King
(Related: Feminism)

"Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it."
- Florence King
(Related: Beauty, God, Creativity, Americans, Worship)

"American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them."
- Florence King
(Related: Marriage, American)

"Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs."
- Florence King
(Related: People, Being, Jobs, School)