50 Mardi Gras Quotes and Captions for Your Carnival Season Celebrations

Whether your idea of celebrating Fat Tuesday (a.k.a. Mardi Gras, in French) involves throwing beads from a fancy float in New Orleans or eating a colorful slice of king cake from the comfort of your home, sharing Mardi Gras sayings and quotes on social media is a great and easy way to get in on the fun.

While traditional Mardi Gras festivities like wearing decorative masks or marching in parades are well known, the origins of the popular cultural celebration are not as widespread. Before sharing these funny Mardi Gras quotes and famous Mardi Gras sayings with your friends, family, and followers, it’s important to know its rich and interesting history.

For starters, Mardi Gras traditions are in full effect in the Big Easy and many parts of the world like Brazil, Italy, and Trinidad and Tobago on the last Tuesday before Lent — the six-week period from Ash Wednesday leading up to Easter during which Christians fast, repent, and pray. While Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday is traditionally celebrated on one day — this year it falls on February 21, 2023 — the Mardi Gras season actually starts on Epiphany (January 6). The celebratory period is known as Carnival, and festivities typically last for a week or more in many places.

Now that you’re a bit more up to speed, keep reading for 50 quotes you can use as Fat Tuesday Instagram captions to accompany your cool photos. No matter if you’re posting a snapshot of the Crescent City revelry, the end result of a Mardi Gras recipe, or a picture of you decked out in purple, gold, and green, these messages will capture the spirit of the Carnival season.

Mardi Gras Sayings

• What happens on the float, stays on the float!

• Time for big fun in the Big Easy.

• Life of the Mardi!

• The only Tuesday that matters is Fat Tuesday.

• The masked and the beautiful.

• Confetti hair, don’t care.

• Throw me something!

• Meet me in the bayou.

• The beads, the bayou, and beignets…it’s a Mardi party!

• Laissez les bon temps rouler. (Let the good times roll.)

• Fat Tuesday will always be my favorite day of the week.

• Float on!

• Looking snazzy, feeling jazzy.

• It’s a Mardi party!

• It’s time to get jazzy.

• Let’s get this Mardi started.

Mardi Gras Sayings About Food

• Let the gumbo games begin!

• Let them eat king cake!

• Creole cuisine is my love language.

• It’s beignet too long.

• There are sweets, but the King takes the cake!

• Jamming for jambalaya.

• Nobody puts baby in a king cake!

• Time to get your gumbo grub on!

• Beignet, done that.

• Getting dirty with rice.

• Clamoring for crawfish!

Mardi Gras Sayings About Beads

• Beads or it didn’t happen.

• Let’s throw down!

• It’s a beads and Mardi Gras thing.

• The more beads the better.

• Bead me please!

• I’ve got a need for beads.

• Beads or bust.

• Beads are a girl’s best friend.

• I’m kind of a bead deal.

• The bold, the beaded and the beautiful!

Mardi Gras Quotes

• "There was a change in the air. It was Mardi Gras in New Orleans, after all." — Penelope Douglas
  

• "There's no place like New Orleans." — Harry Connick Jr.

• "I have a love / hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship." — Nicolas Cage

• "I spent so many summers and New Years and fun times in New Orleans. It was always a place where I felt I could go and actually let go and enjoy the spirit of something." — Sandra Bullock

• "The city itself, I like the vibes of New Orleans." — Zion Williamson

• "In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful." — Anthony Bourdain

• "I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here." — Anne Rice

• "If you love New Orleans, she'll love you back." — Drew Brees

• "It's a great party, and anyone who doesn't enjoy Mardi Gras is not of this world." — Franklin Alvarado

• "An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans." — Mark Twain

• "Mardi Gras is a state of mind." — Ed Muniz

• "Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once." — Chris Rose

• "Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins." — Paris Hilton

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