Quotes About Margaret

She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.

you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

Mistress! What would I get out of that except a passel of brats? -Scarlett O'Hara

My! How the grapes are sour today! -Rhett Butler

and the most insane gossip tortured the town

It's always annoying to the godly when the ungodly flourish like the green bay tree.

As though she thought I was to blame for what happened," Scarlett thought indignantly.

Well, she was right, as far as she knew. But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?

Indeed! he said coolly. Well, who's the happy father? Ashley?

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

they are fighting for a Cause that was lost the minute the first shot was fired, for our Cause is really our own way of living and that is gone already.

Oh, you have the nastiest way of making virtues sound so stupid." "But virtues are stupid. Do you care if people talk?

Being president of the United States is the most stressful, thankless job in the world and Margaret can't fathom why anyone would voluntarily pursue it.

Depression is 80 per cent of my condition, and 10 per cent is mania, and 10 per cent is what we call normal. I say that must be when I am buying groceries. Or vacuuming.

the coarse impudence of Rhett Butler. But, if he possessed

Tiddy"? Matthias thought. The big, fierce Population Police officer goes by "Tiddy"?

Sweet, Dan thought. This is actually poetry I understand right away. And something that will be fun to do! Shakespeare was asking them to dig up his grave.

searching everywhere? Shouldn't they be extra alert, not

My name's Tidwell, by the way," the officer said. "Friends call me 'Tiddy.' 

Physicists don't believe in wizards—a fact that I, being a wizard, find highly insulting. I have taken my revenge, therefore, by refusing to believe in physicists.

Upstairs Margaret said abruptly, 'I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,' and when Brad said, 'What starts to happen?' she said hysterically, 'People starting to come apart.

Margaret stood all alone at her first witch-burning. She had on her new blue cap and her sister's shawl, and she stood by herself, waiting. She had long ago given up on finding her sister and brother-in-law in the crowd, and was now content to watch alone. She felt a very pleasant fear and a crying excitement over the burning; she had lived all her life in the country and now, staying with her sister in the city, she was being introduced to the customs of society.

To be honest, if I was going to have any kind of fantasy, be it left-wing or otherwise, it wouldn't involve Margaret Thatcher.

At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.