Margaret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind Quotes

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Hardships make or break people.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.

Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy

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.

All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

Oh - a diamond ring - and Rhett, do buy a great big one!

Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.

Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.'God's nightgown!' she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved.

Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.

Melly is the only woman friend I ever had, ” she thought forlornly, “the only woman except Mother who really loved me. She’s like Mother, too. Everyone who knew her has clung to her skirts.

There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.

There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

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.

Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

She thinks I'm a hussy, ' thought Scarlett. 'And perhaps she's right at that!

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.

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.

Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to findthat their wives do have sense?""Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.

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.

After all, tomorrow is another day!

But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?