I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?

How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.