Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection. -Florence Nightingale Best
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 Food
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. -Florence Nightingale Women
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 Women
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 as among the sick. -Florence Nightingale Health
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 Death
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. -Florence Nightingale Sympathy
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. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. -Florence Nightingale Life
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. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. -Florence Nightingale God
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 health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it. -Florence Nightingale Health
