Margaret Mitchell Quotes

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.

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

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

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

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

After all, tomorrow is another day.

He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

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.

Hardships make or break people.

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.

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.

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.

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.

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

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.

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.

Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

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

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

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

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

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

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

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.