Margaret Mitchell Quotes
What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?
Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.
Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler
I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.
Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.
You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.
Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.
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.
Melly is the only woman friend I ever had, ” she thought forlornly, “the only woman except Mother who really loved me. She’s like Mother, too. Everyone who knew her has clung to her skirts.
There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..
War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.
She thinks I'm a hussy, ' thought Scarlett. 'And perhaps she's right at that!
I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.
Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to findthat their wives do have sense?""Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.
This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent
But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?
I stood there in the doorway before you saw me and I watched you, ' he said.'And I watched the other girls. And they all looked as though their faces came out of one mold. Yours didn’t.
Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.
you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.''My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.
If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.
Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.
Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.'God's nightgown!' she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved.
Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
Until you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.