Florence Nightingale Quotes
Nurse, writer and noted statistician
What everyone thinks about Florence Nightingale?
I can expect no sympathy or help from (my family).
— Florence Nightingale
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
— Florence Nightingale
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
— Florence Nightingale
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
— Florence Nightingale
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
— Florence Nightingale
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.
— Florence Nightingale
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement / they have only tried to be 'men' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men
— Florence Nightingale
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
— Florence Nightingale
