Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

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.

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.

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

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.