God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Let's face it: 'Threatening' people are the only interesting people around. The unthreatening are, by and large, competent mediocrities who take lemming-like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor… — Florence King Copy Share Image
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Whenever people are confronted by a prediction for the future that they simply cannot or will not believe, they always say, 'It… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who… — Florence King Copy Share Image
My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are… — Florence King Copy Share Image
There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“Feminists will not be satisfied until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation for handicapped… — Florence King Copy Share Image
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… — Florence King Copy Share Image
In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny… — Florence King Copy Share Image
In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist… — Florence King Copy Share Image
He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. — Florence King Copy Share Image
to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world. — Florence King Copy Share Image
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Copy Share Image
No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street — Florence King Copy Share Image
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt. — Florence King Copy Share Image
