187 Quotes by Florence King

My consultants recommended several nihilists and existentialists but I rejected them all. A black turtleneck sweater does not a misanthrope make. Nihilists and existentialists tend to be bohemians, who invariably run in packs; despite their alienated stance, they have always struck me as a sociable lot who surround themselves with people because they are forever saying “Nothing matters,” and they need someone to say it to.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

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

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty – as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

The Southern man has a certain swagger about him that every woman craves in a man, whether she is willing to admit it or not. in this depressingly utilitarian age, when young lovers remove identical faded jeans and pea jackets before getting into bed together, the thought of a beau sabreur lover is not unappealing, Neither the overbearing male chauvinist nor the supportive gelding are capalbe of stirring the female blood, but a dashing cavalier is.

There is no such thing as a fallen woman; when she steps out of her place, she always steps up.

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

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it’s the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

I’ve always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.