Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.

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)

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