Charming Southern Quotes & Sayings

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'
That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress. — Benjamin Disraeli

Has anyone else ... "
"Hmm?" Grams walked the paper back across the room and took up her tray of hospital good again, settling it over me. "Has anyone else, what?:
"Been by," I mumbled. "To visit."
Grams gave me a knowing smile. "A charming young woman with a mouth that could give a sailor a heart attack? A sweet little one who brought you flowers? The one who spent half a day chasing doctors and nurses around, demanding answers about your condition? Or, by any chance are you referring to a very well - mannered Southern boy? — Alexandra Bracken

I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now. — Jenny Hval

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. — Thomas Holcroft

I didn't think you'd allow me to attend. (Emily)
I'm a beast, Emily, not a bastard. (Draven) — Kinley MacGregor

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods. — Socrates

The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you. — Rajneesh

It was a pastiche of public library porn from Irving Stone to Philip Roth. — Nell Zink

There ain't no Coupe Deville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jacks box. — Meat Loaf

As long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized ... The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions. — H.L. Mencken

Cash aimed to buy that talking machine from Suratt with that money, Darl said. — William Faulkner

It isn't the perfect 'fairytale love story' I read about when I was a little girl. The ones with the perfect Prince Charming and the sweet and innocent princess. Instead, I fell in love with the Harley riding 'bad boy', and Lawson fell for the southern belle with a wild streak a mile wide. But if you ask me, I think eight-year-old me would love the way our happily ever after turned out. — Danielle Jamie