It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it.

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

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

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.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.