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

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.