Fannie Flagg Quotes

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

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

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

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

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

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

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

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

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

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

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.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

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

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

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

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

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

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

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

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

It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened

The ones that hurt the most always say the least.

I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

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

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

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

All those calm, adult discussions. When all she really wanted to do was scream for her momma, her sweet momma, the one person in the world who loved her better than anyone ever would or ever could.

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

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

Remember if people talk behind your back it only means you're two steps ahead!