42+ Fannie Flagg Quotes On Freedom, Patriotism And Match Game

Fannie Flagg was an American author, actress, and comedian. She is best known for her novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was later adapted into a popular film. Flagg is also known for her work on the television game show Match Game and her novel Can't Wait to Get to Heaven. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Fannie Flagg on freedom, patriotism, love.

Top 10 Fannie Flagg Quotes

1. 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.
2. Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
3. I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
4. You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.
5. 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.
6. You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.
7. Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?
8. Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.
9. 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.
10. There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Fannie Flagg Short Quotes

• If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.
• I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.
• I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
• It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.
• The ones that hurt the most always say the least.
• By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?
• I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.
• Don't give up before the miracle happens.
• I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.
• That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

Fannie Flagg Quotes About Love

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

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

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

Fannie Flagg Quotes About People

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

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

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. — Fannie Flagg

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

Fannie Flagg Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business. — Fannie Flagg

It's funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart. — Fannie Flagg

Life Lessons by Fannie Flagg

Fannie Flagg teaches us that it is never too late to pursue our dreams and follow our passions. She encourages us to be kind to others and to always be open to new experiences and opportunities. Lastly, she reminds us that life is full of surprises and to never give up hope.