Quotes from Margaret Mitchell

I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.

There's nothing worse than a barbecue turned into an indoor picnic.

How closely women crutch the very chains that bind them!

Food! Food! Why did the stomach have a longer memory than the mind? Scarlett could banish heartbreak but not hunger and each morning as she lay half asleep, before memory brought back to her mind war and hunger, she curled drowsily expecting the sweet smells of bacon frying and rolls baking. And each morning she sniffed so hard to really smell the food she woke herself up.

Afternoon naps were a custom of the country and never were they so necessary as on the all-day parties, beginning early in the morning and culminating in a ball.

Like must marry like or there'll be no happiness.

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them! You think the Hindu custom barbarous—but would you have had the courage to appear here tonight if the Confederacy hadn't needed you?

La terra è la sola cosa al modo che valga qualche cosa [...] perché è la sola cosa al mondo che rimanga e, non dimenticarlo!, la sola cosa per cui vale la pena di lavorare, di lottare... di morire.

You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate," Ellen told her daughter. "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.

All you've done is to be different from other women and you've made a little success at it. As I've told you before, that is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned! Scarlett, the mere fact that you've made a success of your mill is an insult to every man who hasn't succeeded. Remember, a well-bred female's place is in the home and she should know nothing about this busy, brutal world.

You must not say these things, Scarlett! You mustn't. You don't mean them. You'll hate yourself for saying them, and you'll hate me for hearing them!

Tutte le guerre sono sacre» replicò. « Per quelli che debbono combatterle. Se coloro che cominciano una guerra non la dichiarassero sacra, chi sarebbe tanto sciocco da andare a battersi? Ma checché dicano gli oratori agli idioti che vanno a farsi ammazzare, qualunque sia il nobile scopo che assegnano alla guerra, la ragione di questa è sempre una sola: il denaro. Tutte le guerre non sono che questioni di quattrini.»

Mrs. Charles Hamilton--one hundred and fifty dollars--in gold.

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

Right here, answered Rhett and, picking the child up, drew him to his knee. You are boy enough for me, son.

Vi amo, Rossella, perché ci somigliamo tanto; rinnegati, tutti e due, e profondamente egoisti. A nessuno di noi due importa che il mondo vada in rovina, purché noi ci salviamo.

But, Scarlett, you need kissing badly. 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.

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb: 'The dogs bark but the caravan passes on'? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

Ellen was the audience before which the blustering drama of Gerald O'Hara had been played. Now the curtain had been rung down forever, the footlights dimmed and the audience suddenly vanished, while the stunned old actor remained on his empty stage, waiting for his cues.

My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, I'm sorry, all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief

SCARLETT O'HARA WAS NOT BEAUTIFUL

I think—I think," she began hesitantly, "that I've always been lonely where women were concerned. It isn't just my working that makes Atlanta ladies dislike me. They just don't like me anyway. No woman ever really liked me, except Mother. Even my sisters. I don't know why, but even before the war, even before I married Charlie, ladies didn't seem to approve of anything I did—

Dio mi è testimone che gli yankees non mi abbatteranno. Supererò questo; e quando sarà passato, non soffrirò mai più la fame. Né io né i miei. Dovessi rubare o uccidere...Dio mi è testimone che non soffrirò la fame mai più.

starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends.