Quotes from Margaret Mitchell

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.

If only he hadn't gone out with the Klan!

It's hard to be strict with a man who loses money so pleasantly.

In the nine years before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta. When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village, and wilderness rolled over the site.

Hasta que uno no ha perdido la reputación, no comprende que era un peso enorme y que la libertad es algo formidable.

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more—and by remembering too much.

Men should either be clean shaven, mustached or wear full beards. "That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do," she thought

Now for the first time since the barbecue she realized just waht she had brought on herself. The thought of this strange boy whom she hadn't really wanted to marry getting into bed with her, when her heart was breaking with an agony of regret at her hasty action and the anguish of losing Ashley forever, was too much to be borne.

He thought as he stared at Will in the shadowy hall that 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.

There will never again be men like them, said Carreen softly. No one can take their places.

As God is my witness, as God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill—as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

Mercenary? No, I'm only farsighted. Though perhaps that is merely a synonym for mercenary. At least, people who were not as farsighted as I will call it that.

You've been brave so long Scarlett. You just gotta go on being brave.

Twill come to you, this love of land.

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

If God had seen fit to punish them so, then God could very well do without prayers. Religion had always been a bargaining process with Scarlett. She promised God good behavior in exchange for favors. God had broken the bargain time and again, to her way of thinking, and she felt she owned Him nothing now.

You should have insured a place for your children in the social scheme years ago—but you didn't. You didn't even bother to keep what position you had. And it's too much to hope that you'll mend your ways at this late date. You're too anxious to make money and too fond of bullying people.

The Cause they had thought could never fall had fallen forever.

Whut gempmums says an' what dey thinks is two diffunt things.

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.

Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

We should have paid heed to cynics like Butler who knew, instead of statesmen who felt—and talked.

I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man.

Then why is your mouth all pursed up in that ridiculous way?