men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

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

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

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

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

. . . 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.

If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.