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

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler