The Help Quotes

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.[to Mae]

Your eggs are dying. Would it kill you to go on a date?[to Skeeter]

You know, Hilly, if I didn’t know any better, I’d say you’ve been eating too much pie.

They don’t hate me. They hate what they think I did.[Celia Foote]They hate you ’cause they think you white trash.[Minny Jackson]

Not a big fan of oysters, huh?[Stuart Whitworth]Oysters are a vehicle for crackers and ketchup.[Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan]

Maybe we ought to burn the chicken a little.[Celia Foote]Minny don’t burn chicken.[Minny Jackson]

Maybe I can’t send you to jail for what you wrote, but I can send you for being a thief.[Hilly Holbrook]I know something about you. Don’t you forget that. From what Yule Mae says, there’s a lot of time to write letters in jail. Plenty of time to write the truth about you. And the paper is free.[Aibileen Clark]Nobody will believe what you wrote![Hilly Holbrook]I don’t know! I been told I’m a pretty good writer. Already sold a lot of books.[Aibileen Clark]

Love and hate are two horns on the same goat, Eugenia. And you need a goat.

It’s a lonely road if a mama don’t think their child is pretty.

If you can love your enemy, you already have the victory.

I’ve never met a woman that says exactly what she’s thinking.[Stuart Whitworth]Well, I got plenty to say.[Eugenia ‘Skeeter’ Phelan]

I’m sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant? Or were you just born stupid?[to Stuart]