So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

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.

She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.

Hope is the universal currency of a recession. Invest it wisely!

If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.

My sister is going to have a simple wedding. Just immediate family. And whoever the hell would want to marry her.

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

May the eyes of cowards never sleep

My mom's a nurse so I'd kind of grown up with, around medicine which is probably why I became an actress instead.

There's not much room for deviation, yet if you manage to crack it, there then you can express things that actually do sound unique and genuinely original.

Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.