Margaret Mitchell Quotes

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.

Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy

There ain't nothin' from the outside can lick any of us.

The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

I loved something I made up

I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

The happiest days are when babies come.

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.