Quotes from Margaret Mitchell

This can't be real. It can't be. It's a nightmare. I'll wake up and find it's all been a nightmare. I mustn't think of it now, or I'll begin screaming in front of all these people. I can't think of it now. I'll think later, when I can stand it - when I can't see his eyes.

Mitchell rose to the task of playing the avenging angel for the Confederate States. There have been hundreds of novels about the Civil War, but Gone With the Wind stands like an obelisk in the

no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money.

Voi Scarlett, sinä olet huono valehtelemaan! Niin, elämässä on nyt loistoa - eräänlaista. Siinähän vika juuri onkin. Entisissä ajoissa ei ollut loistoa, mutta niissä oli suloa, kauneutta, hiljaista taikaa.

If for no other reason she hated the Yankees because they kept her from having real coffee with sugar and thick cream in it.

Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.

This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent

He said nothing in the world was worth what this war was going to do to us. He said there wasn't anything at all to glory—it was just misery and dirt.

And I'm not ashamed that he thinks that way. He thinks the war is all wrong but he's willing to fight and die anyway, and that takes lots more courage than fighting for something you think is right.

In a weak moment I have written a book...

Let's don't be too hot headed and let's don't have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

It was as if the whole world were enveloped in an unmoving blanket of grey smoke. And the whole world was still.

Eavesdroppers often hear highly entertaining and instructive things

She thinks I'm a hussy,' thought Scarlett. 'And perhaps she's right at that!

She only did—did what she felt she had to do. And our men did what they felt they had to do. People must do what they must do. We don't all think alike or act alike and it's wrong to—to judge others by ourselves.

Home was five blocks away. She would not wait for the sobbing Peter to harness the buggy, would not wait for Dr. Meade to drive her home. She could not endure the tears of the one, the silent condemnation of the other. She went swiftly down the dark front steps without her coat or bonnet and into the misty night. She rounded the corner and started up the long hill toward Peachtree Street, walking in a still wet world, and even her footsteps were as noiseless as a dream.

Oh, I don't care! I don't care what they say!" she whispered, as a sweet madness swept over her.

The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

As though she thought I was to blame for what happened," Scarlett thought indignantly.

Ho paura di morire e di andare all'inferno. - Se egli avesse riso, sarebbe morta. Ma Rhett non rise. - Siete in ottima salute, mi pare.. e forse l'inferno non c'è. - - C'è Rhett! Sapete benissimo che c'è!- - So che c'è; ma è qui, sulla terra. Non dopo che saremo morti. Dopo la morte non vi è nulla, Rossella. Il vostro inferno lo provate adesso. -

Yes, life has a glitter now-of a sort. That's what's wrong with it. The old days had no glitter but they had a charm, a beauty, a slow-paced glamour.

With unerring African instinct, the negroes had all discovered that Gerald had a loud bark and no bite at all, and they took shameless advantage of him.

Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift. She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate.

So you could not love me? That is as I hoped. For while I like you immensely, I do not love you and it would be tragic indeed for you to suffer twice from unrequited love, wouldn't it, dear?