Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

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.

I want to say that at various points in your marriage, may it last forever, you will look at this person and feel only rage.

With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding and Wisdom

Be strong and courageous, along unfamiliar paths, God will guide you.

My belief that everyone is a person, no matter what they’ve done, and that taking a human life is wrong.

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

Choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason.

Nature is not static, but causes its own, internally-generated changes - both in climate and in biological systems.

God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.