Florence King Quotes

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

My favorite hobby is matchmaking. It's a lot easier to do it in movies then in real life because in real life, people don't do what I tell them to do.

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em.

She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat." "It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.

Isabelle is like a warrior going into battle and she needs… you said yes? You'd really choose an inexperienced squire?" she asked, her voice incredulous. He laughed. "I would." She smiled. "You're lying to me to make me feel better. It's all right. It's working. Now tell me another lie.

That it is not the people who really feel that way, but it is people who have the most money to fire up these propaganda campaigns, these like, basically these lies that they are willing to lie to the public in order to manipulate them into doing what they want. And to me it doesn't make any sense.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

There is also this great sense of triumphalism, that just as we defeated the Soviet Union, we can do this. And out of this sense of desperation and pathological religion, there develops an all-encompassing drive to harm and hurt, without regard for the innocent and the uninvolved, which was the case in New York.

Trump is very skillful at identifying - even if he can't quite get it clear, or precisely describe it - but that's what he wants to do, is always have something to use against people, even if it's distorted.