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

He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

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

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.