What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

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

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

What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

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.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.