Quotes from Margaret Mitchell

No one ever gets anywhere seeing both sides.

Rhett: 'Do you still want me to go to hell?' Scarlett: 'Well, not as often as I used to.' Rhett: 'Do it whenever you like, if it makes you happy.' Scarlett: 'It doesn't make me especially happy,' said Scarlett and, bending, she kissed him carelessly. His dark eyes flickered quickly over her face, hunting for something in her eyes which he did not find, and he laughed shortly.

Miss O'Hara - I must tell you something. I - I love you!' 'Um?' said Scarlett absently.

La gente piccola dev'essere solida per poter sopravvivere fra i grandi.

Personally, we could call her 'Garbage O'Hara' for all I care. – in response to editor & friend Lois Cole's criticism of the name Scarlett O'Hara while Gone with the Wind was in its final stages before publication.

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

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.

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.

You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

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?

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.

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

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.