Quotes from Margaret Mitchell

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

My dear, I don't give a damn.

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

Hardships make or break people.

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

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

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

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

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love...

No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation.