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Florence Nightingale Quotes

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

Denis Healey
Florence Nightingale, Lamps, Stalking

Can she sing? She's practically a Florence Nightingale.

Samuel Goldwyn
Funny, Witty, Florence Nightingale

You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole, I dislike my fellow beings; I find them so difficult to understand. But I have a tidy mind and untidy lives irritate me. Also, they are uncivilized.

Stella Gibbons
Florence Nightingale, Mind, Said
Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

Larry Gatlin
Mother, Florida, Florence Nightingale

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

Franny Billingsley
Thinking, People, Florence Nightingale
Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.41, A&C Black

Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale.

Florence Nightingale
Cat, Florence Nightingale, Bismarck

For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.

David Cannadine
Compassion, Self, Florence Nightingale

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