Fannie Flagg Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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

The ones that hurt the most always say the least.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.

I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.

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

In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.