Top 150 Fannie Flagg Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t give up before the miracle happens.”

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

5. “It’s always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.”

— Fannie Flagg

6. “I’m too young to be old and too old to be young.”

— Fannie Flagg

7. “Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?”

— Fannie Flagg

8. “You’re just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That’s what you are, a bee charmer.”

— Fannie Flagg

9. “Ci sono persone magnifiche su questa terra, che se ne vanno in giro travestite da normali esseri umani.”

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

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11. “You never know what’s in a person’s heart until they’re tested, do you?”

— Fannie Flagg

12. “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.”

— Fannie Flagg

13. “There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. – Alfred, Lord Tennyson.”

— Fannie Flagg

14. “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – ALBERT EINSTEIN.”

— Fannie Flagg

15. “She felt her heart open and fill with the pure wonder of being alive and making it through.”

— Fannie Flagg

16. “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.”

— Fannie Flagg

17. “Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you’re young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you’re wearing a rubber girdle. But you don’t know you’re old.”

— Fannie Flagg

18. “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.”

— Fannie Flagg

19. “That’s what I’m living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.”

— Fannie Flagg

20. “If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place.”

— Fannie Flagg

21. “Face it girls. I’m older and I have more insurance.”

— Fannie Flagg

22. “The ones that hurt the most always say the least.”

— Fannie Flagg

23. “Why Did Noah Let Two Snakes on the Boat When He Had a Chance to Get Rid of Them Once and for All?”

— Fannie Flagg

24. “Because any idiot can get married and have children; that’s no great accomplishment.”

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

27. “It’s funny, when you’re a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you’re on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.”

— Fannie Flagg

28. “I believe in God, but I don’t think you have to go crazy to prove it.”

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

32. “By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?”

— Fannie Flagg

33. “The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person’s culture.”

— Fannie Flagg

34. “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.”

— Fannie Flagg

35. “I just know there’s an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.”

— Fannie Flagg

36. “To Toot One’s Own Horn Is Unattractive.”

— Fannie Flagg

37. “Idgie smiled back at her and looked up into the clear blue sky that reflected in her eyes and she was as happy as anybody who is in love in the summertime can be.”

— Fannie Flagg

38. “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.”

— Fannie Flagg

39. “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.”

— Fannie Flagg

40. “People cain’t help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don’t you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.”

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg

42. “The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.”

— Fannie Flagg

43. “She sat there admiring the beauty of the light amber fluid in the clear bottle, the way the condensation on the Miller bottle ran down the black and gold label, like it was a fine piece of art. That was the problem with alcohol. It was so beautiful to look at, how could you resist it? And what kind of place could be more inviting and seductive than a truly elegant cocktail bar?”

— Fannie Flagg

44. “As a tribute, they had this inscribed in bronze and placed on her tombstone: She has climbed to the peaks above storm and cloud She has found the light of son and of God, I cannot say, I will not say That she is dead. She is merely flown away. – James Whitcomb Riley.”

— Fannie Flagg

45. “In America, no matter how poor you started out or where you came from, you could go as high as you wanted if you were willing to work for it.”

— Fannie Flagg

46. “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.”

— Fannie Flagg

47. “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.”

— Fannie Flagg

48. “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.”

— Fannie Flagg

49. “It’s kind of funny, really, all these years, everybody has been so busy trying to figure what life was all about, and all the while, it was just something for us to enjoy.”

— Fannie Flagg

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

— Fannie Flagg