Margaret Mitchell Quotes
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The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.
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She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile.
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I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.
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She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.
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Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
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Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
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You can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.
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Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?
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I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.
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Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
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So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.
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Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.
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How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
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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.
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Crackers are short on sparkle.
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To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.
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It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?
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Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.
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They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.
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I will think about that tomorrow!
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Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
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You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
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She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.
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If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.