Florence King

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

— Florence King

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

— Florence King

A man should never apologize!

— Florence King

Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.

— Florence King

“Hell hath no fury like a liberal arts major scorned.”

— Florence King

Some last words seem flat-out unbelievable.

— Florence King

Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?

— Florence King

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

— Florence King

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

— Florence King

I do believe in reincarnation, but I do not believe there is life before noon.

— Florence King

“Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toes?”

— Florence King

No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street

— Florence King

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

— Florence King

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

— Florence King

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

— Florence King

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

— Florence King

“The belle is a product of the Deep South, which is a product of the nineteenth century and the Age of Romanticism.…

— Florence King

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down…

— Florence King

Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the…

— Florence King

Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor…

— Florence King

The joker in the deck of lesbian fidelity is female vanity: no woman of fifty is going to undress in front of…

— Florence King

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a…

— Florence King

Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will…

— Florence King

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

If the West Point class of 1915 is called 'the class the stars fell on' for the number of World War II…

— Florence King

You can't pretend to be witty because wit is dry, subtle, lacerating, cynical, elitist, and risque - all impossible to fake. Humor,…

— Florence King

Any woman who has ever worked in a gutsy male environment knows that the correct response to a randy remark is an…

— Florence King

Until feminists started wailing about the female's passivity, submissiveness, and something called 'victim status,' I had no idea women were such doormats.…

— Florence King

In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that…

— Florence King

In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a…

— Florence King

Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that…

— Florence King

“His Grace called Virginius in and said: "Do you think a priest of the Anglican Communion should be a divorced man with…

— Florence King

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a…

— Florence King

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

Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and…

— Florence King

“Writers make everybody nervous but we terrify Silly Service workers. Our apartments always look like a front for something, and no matter…

— Florence King

When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New…

— Florence King

“If any of us had heard the word "feminist" we would have thought it meant a girl who wore too much makeup,…

— Florence King

The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like…

— Florence King

The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British…

— Florence King