Margaret Mitchell Quotes
-
Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those thousands on furlough who FORGOT to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their wounds for six months but who remain at home, going about their usual business or doing the spring plowing.
-
What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.
-
God help the man who ever really loves you.
-
My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.
-
In a weak moment, I have written a book.
-
Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.
-
Never pass up new experiences Scarlett, They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler
-
Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
-
Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.
-
Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.
-
People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.
-
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
-
Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself.
-
I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.
-
And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
-
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.
-
Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.
-
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.
-
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
-
It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?
-
It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over twenty-five thousand copies and it is surprising how many people's feelings are hurt, how many screwballs think their brain children have been stolen, and how many people feel that they have been portrayed in a manner calculated to bring infamy upon them.
-
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
-
The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain.
-
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.