Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

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)

I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.