Quotes By Author: Fannie Flagg

“We must be kind and forgive one another or we won’t survive. But even among the most religious there seems to be a great blind spot covering the world, an inability to learn from past experience. Civilization is as precarious as a sand castle. All the care and effort it took to create it can be knocked down in a second by some bully or another. And the world is full of bullies.”

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

“… a heart can be broken, but it keep on beating, just the same.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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