Margaret Mitchell Quotes

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.

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

. . . 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.

I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'

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?

But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.

They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

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

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.