Quotes from Margaret Mitchell

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is

Just think, Scarlett, a half-million dollars, if you'd only restrained your fiery nature and not rushed into wedlock again!

She thought: "They both see the truth of this war, but Ashley is willing to die about it and Rhett isn't. I think that shows Rhett's good sense.

Negroes were provoking sometimes and stupid and lazy, but there was loyalty in them that money couldn't buy, a feeling of oneness with their white folks which made them risk their lives to keep food on the table.

Until you have lost your reputation you never know what a burden it was or what freedom is.

For when Philippe, with his snapping eyes and his wild ways, left Savannah forever, he took with him the glow that was in Ellen's heart and left for the bandy-legged little Irishman who married her only a gentle shell.

Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

Si los que empezaran una guerra no la declarasen sagrada, ¿quién sería tan bobo que fuese a combatir?

If you say 'war' just once more, I'll go in the house and shut the door. I've never gotten so tired of any one word in my life as 'war,' unless it's 'secession.

For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not for doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality. He moved in an inner world that was more beautiful than Georgia and came back to reality with reluctance!

Digan lo que quieran los oradores a los idiotas que van a hacerse matar, cualquiera que sea el noble fin que le asignen a la guerra, la razón de ésta es siempre una sola: el dinero.

It was awful for a man to know what women really thought about and talked about. It made a girl feel positively undressed.

she smiled when she spoke, consciously deepening her dimple and fluttering her bristly black lashes as swiftly as butterflies' wings.

Las pruebas, la adversidad, forman a la gente o la destrozan.

You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took the credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.

Ashley wrote me that we should not be fighting the Yankees. And that we have been betrayed into it by statesmen and orators mouthing catchwords and prejudices," said Melly rapidly. "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.

realizing wryly that almost anything was possible when necessity drove.

my family and the Old Doctor's family have had more than our share of ups and downs. And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler—smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving

Then--then you mean I've ruined it all--that you don't love me any more? That's right.

Don't holler—smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving. We had to be.

I've never bothered about what people said.

You are pretty healthy, and maybe there isn't any hell after all. Oh, but there is Rhett! You know there is! I know there is but it's right here on earth. Not after we die. There's nothing after we die, Scarlett. You are having your hell now.

There was an exciting atmosphere about the place that uplifted her. It was as if she could actually feel the accelerated steady pulse of the town's heart beating in time with her own.