Fannie Flagg Quotes

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans.

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

I knew I wasn't the picture of health, but I didn't think I was headed for the last roundup.

Whom the heart first loves does not know or care if they are related by blood.

Buddy, night and day. We even started calling her Cupid. Idgie was

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean ...

The ones that hurt the most always say the least.

Sex, maybe, friendship, yes, but love, no. If she ever felt love coming toward her, she would cross the street to the other side.

If you did tell the truth or if you didn't, there were always consequences. Human interaction was difficult at best.

Damn, I'm Miss Mississippi!

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

So, Doc, will I be able to run the Boston Marathon again this year?

Lenore had pushed her into had been a complete disaster.

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

Susie, the Weight Watchers leader, helped herself to a second helping of the sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top,

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.

After the boy at the supermarket had called her those names, Evelyn Couch had felt violated. Raped by words. Stripped of Everything.

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt,
Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.

Because any idiot can get married and have children; that's no great accomplishment.

It was the story of her life and probably how she had survived this long: with a little talent and a lot of flair.

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

I hate a book that jumps around. Also I can promise

Mildred had had a few men friends after that, but she never really loved any of them. None could ever compete with the one that got away.

Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.

After Elner Shimfissle accidentally poked that wasps' nest up in her fig tree, the last thing she remembered was thinking "Uh-oh.

I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison

All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?

No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff.

I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up.

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

By the way, Boots died and Opal says she hopes you're satisfied.

You know, it's funny what you'll miss when you're away from home. Now me, I miss the smell of coffee ... and bacon frying in the morning.

Every woman wants to get married and have children.

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

Churches were shut down and Stanislaw's father and three uncles had been sent to prison camps for speaking out.

He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

as they walked home, and she would

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

But you soon find out they don't want to meet you, they want you to meet them.

months was ten years.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Women are fools; they will marry anything that has a heartbeat just to have a man.

your camellias are holding up

His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk.

To Toot One's Own Horn Is Unattractive.

They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you.

And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.

But in August 1945, Americans

raging across Europe. Every night, families sat glued to the radio, listening to the news of Poland. Most still had relatives

Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.

And now i know i'm not myself. how can i ever be myself again? i was never myself in the first place!

Claude Pistal is a creep! He is lucky I'm reasonably mild-mannered like Clark Kent.

Almost losing one person you love shines a bright spotlight on life, and suddenly strips you of everything but your real feelings.

She had no interest in love. Love had taken her in the back room and beaten her up pretty badly.

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

Do you think that your worrying can prevent anything from happening? Whatever happens is supposed to happen and whatever doesn't, isn't.

do you know that's the same woman