Quotes About Passion

I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.

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

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

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.

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

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

I love you...I've always loved you. I've never loved anybody else. I just married Charlie to - to try to hurt you. Oh, Ashley, I love you so much I'd walk every step of the way to Virginia just to be near you! And I'd cook for you and polish your boots and groom your horse - Ashley, say you love me! I'll live on it for the rest of my life!

She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.

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

I want you more than I have ever wanted any woman—and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman.

Oh, Scarlett, you are so young you wring my heart.

There was madness and magic in the slim body he held, and the lips turned up to him were red and trembling and he kissed her.

I always intended having you, Scarlett, since that first day I saw you at Twelve Oaks when you threw that vase and swore and proved that you weren't a lady. I

You have all the passion for life I lack.

Oh, I don't care! I don't care what they say!" she whispered, as a sweet madness swept over her.

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

Captain Butler, you must not hold me so tightly. Everybody is looking. If no one were looking, would you care?

His one great flaw was making the terrible and exhilarating mistake of falling in love with Scarlett O'Hara.

With the introduction of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler, Miss Mitchell managed to create the two most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet. Scarlett springs alive in the first sentence of the book and holds the narrative center for over a thousand pages. She is a fabulous, pixilated, one-of-a-kind creation, and she does not utter a dull line in the entire book.

She married Frank Kennedy two weeks later after a whirlwind courtship which she blushingly told him left her too breathless to oppose his ardor any longer.

had awakened no idea of what passion might be or tenderness or true intimacy of body or spirit.

Don't spoil it," he said quietly. "Turn me loose, you fool! Turn me loose! It's Ashley!" He did not relax his grip. "After all, he's her husband, ain't he?" Will asked calmly and, looking down at him in a confusion of joy and impotent fury, Scarlett saw in the quiet depths of his eyes understanding and pity.

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.