“ 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
“ If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing. Florence Nightingale
“ Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. Florence Nightingale
“ A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place. Florence Nightingale
“ Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection. Florence Nightingale
“ The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. Florence Nightingale
“ One's feelings waste themselves in words they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results. Florence Nightingale
“ I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel. Florence Nightingale
“ The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well… Florence Nightingale
“ Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. Florence Nightingale
“ You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. Florence Nightingale
“ A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their healt… Florence Nightingale
“ If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her.… Florence Nightingale
“ If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her.… 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
