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

If you did tell the truth or if you didn't, there were always consequences. Human interaction was difficult at best.

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

I just wonder how many people never get the one they want, and wind up with the one they're supposed to be with.

Now, I'm not saying they can help it, all I am saying is that in order for this world to keep on progressing the women have got to run things. The trick is to do it without them knowing it.

you can't have compassion unless you have a certain loyalty to the human race.

When she finally was able to order a martini, the first sip nearly knocked her head off. It was so strong. And how surprised she was that scotch tasted more like iodine than butterscotch candy. Two of...

and now i know i'm not myself. how can i ever be myself again? i was never myself in the first place!

Buddy, night and day. We even started calling her Cupid. Idgie was

Mrs. Threadgoode pulled something out of the Cracker Jack box and all of a sudden her eyes lit up. "Oh Evelyn, look! Here's my prize. It's a little miniature chicken… just what I like!" and she held...

Depression years come back to me now as the happy times, even though we were all struggling. We were happy and didn't know it.

it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed and ready, and after...

Having children is no guarantee that you'll get visitors … No, it isn't.

and Lenore had served each child several cups of the Simmons eggnog, which was 75 percent rum and 25 percent nog. When they came to pick the children up, all four were stumbling around her living room...

Ida had always been different. At school, when all the kids used to play church, and one would be the preacher, another the preacher's wife, a deacon, and the choir leader, and some would be the...

Because any idiot can get married and have children; that's no great accomplishment.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean … and they'd be mean even if they were rich.

she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.