Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.