I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was…

- Florence King

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

- Florence King

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

- Florence King

If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.

- Florence King

Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Bec…

- Florence King

A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once aga…

- Florence King

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

- Florence King

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

- Florence King

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

- Florence King