Florence King Quotes

Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

We worship education but hate learning.

There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin

The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.

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

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

Familiarity breeds democracry.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding.

I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.

Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.

Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody.

to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

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