187 Quotes by Florence King

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.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

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

Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you arelikely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.