Top 100 Margaret Mitchell Quotes
#2. Well, none of us, as far as I can see, are doing what we intended to do right now, but I think we'll make out just the same. It's a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn't precisely what they expected it to be.
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#4. Oh, what a mess life was! Why had she been such an idiot as to marry Charles of all people and have her life end at sixteen?
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#7. She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
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#8. To survive a family must present an unbroken front to the world.
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#9. Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.
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#10. Drink and dissipation had done their work on the coin-clean profile and now it was no longer the head of a young pagan prince on new-minted gold but a decadent, tired Caesar on copper debased by long usage.
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#11. Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
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#12. What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.
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#14. He was so very large and male, and excessively male creatures always discomposed her.
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#16. She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile
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#18. You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.
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#19. Mitchell rose to the task of playing the avenging angel for the Confederate States. There have been hundreds of novels about the Civil War, but Gone With the Wind stands like an obelisk in the
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#20. A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!" he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler
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#21. The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts ... Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind.
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#22. She had the temper of a Tartar and the rages of a wild cat and, at such times, she did not seem to care what she said or how much it hurt.
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#23. Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?'
If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.
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#24. Men are so conceited they'll believe anything that flatters them
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#25. I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
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#26. Ashley was imprisoned forever by words which were stronger than any jail.
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#27. It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.
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#28. So I think I'll remove him from your mind forever, this way. I'll put my hands, so, on each side of your head and I'll smash your skull between them like a walnut and that will blot him out.
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#30. I love you, Scarlett, because we are so much alike, renegades, both of us, dear, and selfish rascals. Neither of us cares a rap if the whole world goes to pot, so long as we are safe and comfortable.
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#31. He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.
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#32. I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.
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#33. I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler)
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#34. You know I don't read novels,' she said and, trying to equal his jesting mood, went on: 'Besides, you once said it was the height of bad form for husbands and wives to love each other.'
'I once said too God damn many things,' he retorted abruptly and rose to his feet.
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#35. Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.
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#37. Times never change when there's a need for honest work to be done.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.
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#41. I can't make you understand
because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of
a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of
those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll
never want to escape from them as I do.
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#43. The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely on her shoulders now. She was twenty-five and looked it, and so there as no longer any need to try to be attractive.
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#44. And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
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#45. You're a heartless creature but that's part of your charm. Though you've got more charm than the law allows.
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#47. What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. -Rhett Butler
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#48. If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
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#49. I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.
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#51. The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.
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#52. The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
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#53. Why, my goodness, honey. After looking at all those pictures of seraphic and perspirationless babes for so long in the privacy of a foxhole, what is a poor doughfoot going to do when he comes home and discovers that American women are, after all, biological and given, under stress, to shiny noses?
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#54. She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.
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#56. I've got something that most pretty ladies haven't got - and that's a mind that's made up.
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#57. My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.
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#58. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.
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#59. The cause didn't seem sacred to her. The war did not seem to be holy affair.
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#60. But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?
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#61. Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.
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#63. Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin goldfish bowls filled to the brim with the clearest green water and that when the fish swim to the top, as they are doing now, you are devilishly charming?
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#64. born in a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly coloured dreams that had in them no touch of reality.
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#65. Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.
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#66. 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.
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#67. He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.
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#68. Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville," said Rhett, his mouth twisting. "He doesn't care if they all die. The order is out. No exchanges.
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#69. Scarlett, I'm a bad influence on you and if you have any sense you will send me packing - if you can. I'm very hard to get rid of. But I'm bad for you.
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#71. The Cause they had thought could never fall had fallen forever.
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#72. Better to be tormented with memories of Ashley than Charleston accents.
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#74. If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything ...
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#75. Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving. We had to be.
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#76. The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself - and keep it there.
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#77. My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business - Rhett Butler
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#78. As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again. - Scarlett
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#79. Sometimes she thought that all the people she had ever known were strangers except Rhett. Can't
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#82. Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.
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#83. But if true love carries any weight with you, you can be certain Miss Suellen will be rich in that if nothing else.
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#84. She felt puzzled and ashamed, as always when people attributed to her emotions and motives they possessed and thought she shared.
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#85. I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.
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#86. You've been brave so long Scarlett. You just gotta go on being brave.
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#90. You want me to say it? All right, I'll say it. I love you." He
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#92. Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.
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#93. What will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?
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#94. It was his goatee that annoyed her the most. Men should either be clean shaven, mustached or wear full beards.
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#96. She wasn't going to sit down and patiently wait for a miracle to help her. She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.
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#97. Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to find
that their wives do have sense?"
"Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.
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#98. You're a pretty person, Scarlett," he said. "Especially when you are meditating devilment.
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#100. It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.
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