Flannery O'connor Funny Quotes & Sayings

[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny. — Flannery O'Connor

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done. — Kate Flannery

The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. — Flannery O'Connor

He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.'
'What you got on it?' the girl said.
'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.'
'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely. — Flannery O'Connor

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction. — Kate Flannery