Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other. — Florence King Able Copy Share Image
If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a… — Florence King Doe Copy Share Image
The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag… — Florence King American woman Copy Share Image
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. — Florence King Composition Copy Share Image
The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a… — Florence King Aging Copy Share Image
America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically… — Florence King Absolute monarchy Copy Share Image
Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities. — Florence King Democracy Copy Share Image
Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit. — Florence King Coming Copy Share Image
Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name. — Florence King America Copy Share Image
We are incapable of leaving anything to the imagination and loath to leave anything out. Maniacal thoroughness has become our national verbal… — Florence King Anything Copy Share Image
To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love… — Florence King America Copy Share Image
Feminists, I hasten to add, are not all bad. In fact, they are an ideal bellwether, an invaluable aid in helping me… — Florence King Bad Copy Share Image
The long march of Western civilization from pantheons of gods for every taste to one God for all has been thrown into… — Florence King Celebrity Copy Share Image
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. — Florence King Strain 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 Community Copy Share Image
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,… — Florence King Books Copy Share Image
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as… — Florence King Age Copy Share Image
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. — Florence King America Copy Share Image
“His Grace called Virginius in and said: "Do you think a priest of the Anglican Communion should be a divorced man with… — Florence King Humor Copy Share Image
In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor. — Florence King Baseball Copy Share Image
For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new… — Florence King America Copy Share Image
We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous. — Florence King Education Copy Share Image
The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into… — Florence King Chemicals Copy Share Image
