Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

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

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

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