. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.

Crackers are short on sparkle.

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

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.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

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