Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

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.

. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.

That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

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