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

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.

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.

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

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

There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk.

Lucy, you're as transparent as a pane of glass, and there's not a speck of guile to be seen in you. Yet in a way you're a mystery to me.

When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.

Happy trails to you, until we meet again.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.