Sweet Magnolias is an American romantic drama television series streaming exclusively on Netflix. The series is based on the Sweet Magnolias novels by Sherryl Woods and follows three South Carolina women who have been best friends since childhood.
Season 2 is coming out soon, so if you haven’t seen the first season, watch now!
Here’s the scoop on the best quotes from Sweet Magnolias!
1. “It's wetter than a submarine with screen doors." -Dana Sue Sullivan
2. “My week had a week.” -Dana Sue Sullivan
3. “Do the storms ever stop?” -Helen Decatur
4. “I’m holding it together by duct tape and happy thoughts, and I’m near out of both.” -Maddie Townsend
5. “My life’s a mess.” -Maddie Townsend
6. “Sometimes, if we treat people as if they’re good, it challenges them to be good.” -Helen Decatur
7. “While you’re busy hanging price tags, Bill Townsend, keep in mind that you aren’t worth the skin God spent to wrap your bones in. You best pray he doesn’t regret his investment in you as much as I regret mine. -Maddie Townsend
8. “Gossip travels like grease through a goose in this town.” -Maddie Townsend
9. “We got enough storm clouds out there. Don’t need you being one too.” -Maddie Townsend
10. “Okay, so because of what happened with your dad, you are gonna mock this whole town which is filled with good people just doing their best to get through the day?" -Dana Sue Sullivan
11. “I will not stop worrying- it is how I express my love.” -Helen Decatur
12. “And, Peggy, I hope that for the benefit of an informed populace, you will cover this public meeting in your role as a deputy editor of our paper and not in the role of Mary Vaughn’s best friend.” -Helen Decatur
13. “Tongues will be wagging. That’s for sure.” -Maddie Townsend
14. “Maddie, this is hard, but you will persevere.” -Helen Decatur
15. “God call me home the day I say no to a steak.” -Maddie Townsend
16. “Til the cows come home, you are my best girl.” -Helen Decatur
17. “I will not have a man who lies in this kitchen or in my life.” -Dana Sue Sullivan
18. “You always count your first kiss, and then you just keep kissing ‘til you lose count.” -Dana Sue Sullivan
19. “I’ve only seen one play. It was beautiful. It was called Cats.” Noreen Fitzgibbons
20. “Sometimes you don’t have the sense God gave a goose.” -Maddie Townsend
21. “Seriously, first a baseball star and now a theater star. Am I even worthy to walk to school with the two of you?” -Annie Sullivan
22. “You are bound and determined to make me fat as a tick.” -Helen Decatur
23. “This puddle on the floor, formerly known as Helen, has taught me most of what I know about resiliency.” -Maddie Townsend
24. “What, like polka-dotted fish with two heads weird or like not everybody likes Beyonce weird?” -Trotter Vidhyarkorn
25. “You look like you’ve played eight quarters of football around here.” -Helen Decatur
26. “I've been stewin' in my own blues.” -Dana Sue Sullivan
27. “I truly, truly believe that there is not a problem in this world that cannot be solved by having a drink and a talk with the two of you.” -Helen Decatur
28. “You two feel free to continue this little Tiger Beat meeting without me.” -Helen Decatur
29. “It’s the day of rest. Can we give it one, please?” -Maddie Townsend
30. “That was the most magnificent thing I’ve seen you do since you ate that lizard in kindergarten.” -Helen Decatur
31. “You gotta admire people that stay somewhere, you know, and put down roots.” -Dana Sue Sullivan
32. “Ooh, bless your heart. Go ahead then and work your magic.” -Dana Sue Sullivan
33. “Bad catfish is a crime.” -Dana Sue Sullivan
34. “It goes perfectly with my 'Are you sure you want my opinion?' lipstick.” -Dana Sue Sullivan
35. “Go upstairs before you say something that I will make you regret.” -Maddie Townsend
36. “Your nerves are talking and not your heart. Tell the first to shut up and listen to the second.” -Helen Decatur
37. “We all know how painful it can be to kick a man to the curb, but you don’t just reboot yourself out of the pan into hellfire.” -Dana Sue Sullivan
38. “I highly recommend the 'Don’t make me smack you' nail polish.” -Helen Decatur
39. “No rest for the weary.” -Helen Decatur
40. “Now if you'll excuse me I've gotta go see a girl about a grudge.” -Maddie Townsend
41. “Why can’t our kids use words instead of symbols like they’re Neanderthals painting on a cave wall?” -Dana Sue Sullivan
42. “If I relax, I'm gonna lose it. I swear to God, some days I just... I wake up, and I have nothing but hate for Bill and Noreen pumping through my veins.” -Maddie Townsend
43. “Okay, please take your foot off my mood.” -Maddie Townsend
44. “Knock me down and steal my teeth” -Dana Sue Sullivan
45. “This touches my soul.” -Helen Decatur
46. “Pipes in the walls upstairs have been leaking. Corroded everything. Soaked down through the walls, seeped into the floorboards like deceit in a soul.” -Skeeter Ramsey
47. “Chin up sweet pea.” -Dana Sue Sullivan
48. “Are y’all down for a margarita morning?” -Helen Decatur
49. “Well my, my, aren’t we living in high cotton?” -Mary Vaughn Lewis
50. “If Mother Nature didn’t like curves, she would’ve made the earth flat.” -Erik Whitley
51. “No, you did not just ‘ma’am’ me.” -Dana Sue Sullivan
52. “I keep telling him that it's an honor to be coached by a professional player.” -Maddie Townsend
53. “Everyone is entitled to be sad, but no one should be sad alone.” -Helen Decatur
54. “I'm tired of building something so a man can kick it down.” -Dana Sue Sullivan
55. “Six of one, half dozen the other.” -Helen Decatur
56. “I want to hold hands in the mall. I want that.” -Maddie Townsend
57. “I want to move forward… in faith.” -Maddie Townsend
58. “I know you guys mean well, but my life is insane.” -Maddie Townsend
59. “One of my earliest memories was walking through the mall with my parents, and my dad would hold my hand, and he would hold my mother's hand. And it… from that moment on, it was like everywhere he went he held her hand. All the way up until the end. It was like he never wanted to let her go, and… Lord. I want that. I do.” -Maddie Townsend
60. “Dude, we’re better off without her.” -Tyler Townsend
61. “I have the right to my own feelings and my space.” -Tyler Townsend
62. “Why can’t they act like freaking adults!” -Tyler Townsend
63. “As soon as Jackson got all heavy-breather on her, I got her out of there, and it was chill.” -Tyler Townsend
64. “Hey, you can wear this for authenticity.” -Tyler Townsend
65. “Wow bro, she got it bad.” -Gabe Weatherspoon
66. “Tyler Townsend is dead.” -Annie Sullivan
67. “Really, you needed to talk about it? That’s funny because you’ve avoided talking to me every chance that you get.” -Annie Sullivan
68. “Everybody knows! It was bad enough that some people knew I got drunk, but how am I supposed to show my face at school now that everyone's heard me blathering like an idiot?” -Annie Sullivan
69. “Ok fine! Fine, I screwed up, okay? I wasn’t thinking.” -Tyler Townsend
70. “And just so we're clear, I wasn’t thinking when I kissed you. I was drunk. It meant nothing.” -Annie Sullivan
71. “There’s a difference between forgiving and forgetting.” -Maddie Townsend
72. “I’m not looking to create chaos in anyone else's life.” -Isaac Downey
73. “Well, if everyone’s already decided that we’re a thing… who are we to disagree?” -Cal Maddox
74. “Why is it always Jackson? Those two have been grappling since the sandbox.” -Maddie Townsend
75. “I thought I got a whiff of a longstanding rivalry.” -Cal Maddox
76. “Ah junior year’s a beast.” -Cal Maddox
77. “My mother’s the artist. I am the unemployed marketing major.” -Maddie Townsend
78. “I volunteered to design a flyer for a play Kyle did in the fifth grade, and no one explained to me that meant that I would be the poster and program parent for everything until college.” -Maddie Townsend
79. “You can go ahead and say, ‘messy divorce’ God knows everyone else does.” -Maddie Townsend
80. “That cat is way out of the bag, and my skin is getting thicker by the day.” -Maddie Townsend
81. “Oh, I’m glad to see we’re demonstrating teamwork both off and on the field.” -Cal Maddox
82. “Oh, please. Salt is what drowning in the ocean tastes like.” -CeCe Matney
83. “And as we all know, basic cannot be the best.” -CeCe Matney
84. “I don’t know what’s worse? The fact that Jackson slobbered all over Annie or that you stuck your tongue down her throat after he did.” -Kyle Townsend
85. “The careful plan unraveled. We broke up.” -Helen Decatur
86. “You know he didn’t come all this way for the house he came for you.” -Maddie Townsend
87. “First love never truly goes away.” -Maddie Townsend
88. “You shutting down a girl's brand new business is not the best way back into her heart.” -Francis Wingate
89. “Why are you wasting time denying it? It’s Helen Decatur you’re after and you’re going about it like an idiot!” -Francis Wingate
90. “Couch was here, green and gold floral. That is where you were sitting when I saw you for the first time.” -Ryan Wingate
91. “I was fourteen and I wanted to fix the world for you.” -Ryan Wingate
92. “Don’t you dare imply that this house, its history, our history, means less to me than it does to you.” -Helen Decatur
93. “I loved you. Don’t think I forgot about that.” -Helen Decatur
94. “I have to get a new job. I have to get a new everything.” -Maddie Townsend
95. “Just one signature and it’s all over?” -Maddie Townsend
96. “We have been talking about going into business together. Remember? The Sweet Magnolias.” -Helen Decatur
97. “If I really am good at this, why am I not able to put a family together for myself?” -Helen Decatur
98. “My food makes people happy. It gives them a reason to come together.” -Dana Sue Sullivan
99. “Now that we’ve established that Bill is not what you want can we move on to what you do?” -Helen Decatur
100. “Why does everyone think they can sit in judgment in my life?” -Maddie Townsend
There are many more amazing quotes from Sweet Magnolias, however, these are just some of the fan favorites!
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