There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.

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'm very proud of my children. And they've done a wonderful job, and they've been wonderful, wonderful kids.

I'd love to have Michael Jackson [in my show] because he's black and white. So he would appeal to a universal demographic.

I don't like those chiffon nighties ... they show your vest.

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.