189 Quotes by Florence Nightingale

Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply.

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

Our first journey is to find that special place for us.

The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.