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)

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.

Resolve to be thyself and know that who finds himself loses his misery.

Let's just win it and go home.

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?

Our treasure is what we fear losing, and I fear that we fear losing our treasure. We are lovers of money.

I was fine with that. The very idea of Death knowing my name made my skin crawl. Even if this particular Death was only one of many, and almost too pretty to look at.