I heart this movie!

This is a movie I NEVER get sick of watching. It has so many great actors and actresses. It is filled with awesome movie lines. This movie really shows what southern women are all about and I love it.

Clairee: I've just been to the dedication of the new children's park. Truvy: Yeah, how did that go? Clairee: Janice Van Meter got hit with a baseball. It was fabulous. Truvy: Was she hurt? Clairee: I doubt it. She got hit in the head.

Truvy: In a good shoe, I wear a size six, but a seven feels so good, I buy a size eight.

Shelby: Pink is my signature color. [Referring to her daughter's many pink wedding decorations] M'Lynn: That sanctuary looks like it's been hosed down with Pepto-Bismol.

Truvy: I kind of like hiring somebody with a past. Clairee: She can't be more than eighteen. She hasn't had time to have a past. Truvy: Oh get with it, Clairee. This is the eighties. If you can achieve puberty, you can achieve a past.


Ouiser: I do not see plays, because I can nap at home for free. And I don't see movies 'cause they're trash, and they got nothin' but naked people in 'em! And I don't read books, 'cause if they're any good, they're gonna make 'em into a miniseries.

Ouiser: This is it, I've found it, I'm in hell.

Drum: Ouiser, can we call a truce long enough for me to get a piece of cake? [Ouiser slices him the tail piece of an armadillo cake] Drum: Aww, thanks Ouiser. Nothin' like a good piece of a**.

[about the new mayor's wife dancing] Clairee: Looks like two pigs fightin' under a blanket.

Truvy: When it comes to pain and suffering, she's right up there with Elizabeth Taylor.

Annelle: Miss Truvy, I promise that my personal tragedy will not interfere with my ability to do good hair.

Shelby: Truvy, you know what you need in here? You need a radio, takes the pressure off of everyone feeling they have to talk so much. Truvy: I had one once, but I threw it up against the wall when I couldn't figure out where the batteries went. I know now I was suffering from pre-menstrual syndrome.

Clairee: Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!

Truvy: I'm just screamin' at my husband; I can do that any time!

Truvy: Oh, Sammy's so confused he don't know whether to scratch his watch or wind his butt.

Ouiser: I'm not as sweet as I used to be.

Truvy: I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.

Clairee: I love ya more than my luggage.

Clairee: That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.

Clairee: The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.

Ouiser: Yes, Annelle, I pray! Well, I do! There, I said it, I hope you're satisfied. Annelle: I suspected this all along! Ouiser: Oh! Well don't you expect me to come to one of your churches or one of those tent-revivals with all those Bible-beaters doin' God-only-knows-what! They'd probably make me eat a live chicken! Annelle: Not on your first visit! Clairee: Very good, Annelle! Spoken like a true smart-a**!

Truvy: Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

Clairee: Ouiser could never stay mad at me; she worships the quicksand I walk on.

Truvy: Oh, honey, God don't care which church you go, long as you show up!

Truvy: You are playin' hard to get! Clairee: At her age, she should be playin' beat the clock.

Clairee: Ouiser, I'd recognize this penmanship anywhere. You have the handwritin' of a serial killer.

Clairee: Ouiser, you sound almost chipper. What happened today - you run over a small child or something?

Clairee: The older you get, the sillier you get. Ouiser: Yeah, well the older you get, the uglier you get.

Clairee: And I can also report that a mysterious car is parked in her driveway at least once a week... Ouiser: There. My secrets out. I'm having an affair with a Mercedes Benz!

Annelle: That is one ugly dog. What kind of dog is that? Clairee: If it had hair, it'd be a Saint Bernard.

M'Lynn: Oh Ouiser, Drum would NEVER point a gun at a lady! Ouiser: Oh! He's a real gentleman! I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he PEES in it!

Truvy: Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.

M'Lynn: [crying] I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. [screaming] M'Lynn: I'm fine! I can jog all the way to Texas and back, but my daughter can't! She never could! Oh God! I am so mad I don't know what to do! I wanna know why! I wanna know why Shelby's life is over! I wanna know how that baby will ever know how wonderful his mother was! Will he ever know what she went through for him! Oh God I wanna know why? Why? Lord, I wish I could understand! [in a firm tone] M'Lynn: No! No! No! It's not supposed to happen this way! I'm supposed to go first. I've always been ready to go first! I-I don't think I can take this! I-I don't think I can take this! I-I just wanna hit somebody 'til they feel as bad as I do! I just wanna hit something! I wanna hit it hard! [continues sobbing] Clairee: Here! [grabs Ouiser by the shoulder and positions her in front of M'Lynn] Clairee: Hit this! Go ahead M'Lynn, slap her! Ouiser: [taken aback and confused] Are you crazy? Clairee: Hit her! Ouiser: Are you high, Clairee? Truvy: [in a frightened tone] Clairee, have you lost your mind? Clairee: We'll sell t-shirts sayin' "I SLAPPED OUISER BOUDREAUX!" Hit her! Annelle: [in a scared tone] Ms. Clairee, enough! Clairee: Ouiser, this is your chance to do something for your fellow man! Knock her lights out, M'Lynn! Ouiser: [snatches away] Let go o' me! Clairee: M'Lynn, you just missed the chance of a lifetime! Half o' Chiquapin Parish'd give their eye teeth to take a whack at Ouiser!

M'Lynn: I find it amusing. Men are supposed to be made out of steel or something. I just sat there. I just held Shelby's hand. There was no noise, no tremble, just peace. Oh god. I realize as a woman how lucky I am. I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life and I was there when she drifted out. It was the most precious moment of my life. (EVERY time I see this part of the movie I cry!)

Ouiser: He is a boil on the butt of humanity!

Shelby: Remember what Daddy always says - an ounce of pretension is worth a pound of manure!

M'Lynn: Shelby, as you know, wouldn't want us to get mired down and wallow in this. We should handle it the best way we know how and get on with it. That's what my mind says, I just wish somebody would explain it to my heart.