All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

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

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

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

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.