Margaret Mitchell Quotes
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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.
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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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Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.
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You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
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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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In a weak moment, I have written a book.
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The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain.
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Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?
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I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.
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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
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She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
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I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.
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He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
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In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.
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No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.
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How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!
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It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.
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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.
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I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.
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God help the man who ever really loves you.
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Men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them.
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I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.
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Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days.
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All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.