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

“Hazel: Listen babe you have to search for your luck it's nice if it just falls in your lap but I look for my lucky pennies. ... Maggie: What do you do with all your pennies Hazel: I give them away. It's good to spread your luck around and it always comes back to you.”

“So, Doc, will I be able to run the Boston Marathon again this year?”

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

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

“...The band did a salute to Stephen Foster and played 'Beautiful Dreamer' and we formed a bed. Then we played 'My Old Kentucky Home' while the majorettes slowly pranced like horses. We finished with 'I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair', we formed a comb. Miss Philpot is running out of ideas if you ask me.”

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