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.

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.

Do you have any advice for your readers?Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else’s.

...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

I've read all the "Game of Thrones" books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character.

Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.

The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Man will take anything you like, except warning.