Top 95 Quotes About Gone With The Wind
#1. If you want to know about Africa, read our literature
and not just 'Things Fall Apart,' because that would be like saying, 'I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America.
Chris Abani
#2. The first time I read Gone with the Wind and Rhett walked out on Scarlett, I was fifteen and thought all that unrequited love was wildly romantic. The second time I read it, last summer, I thought she was silly and he was a selfish pig.
Jodi Picoult
#3. Was Tara still standing? Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?
Margaret Mitchell
#4. My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.
Meredith Brooks
#5. My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wind' as the central book in her life, and made it the central book in her family.
Pat Conroy
#6. 'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.
Timothy Dalton
#7. If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
Vin Diesel
#8. When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
Pat Conroy
#9. Ah, dear, sweet Eden. To quote the great Rhett Butler, you need to be fucked and by someone who knows how."
"What version of Gone with the Wind did you grow up watching?"
"There are a lot of liberties taken with Spanish subtitles.
Karina Halle
#10. And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-
Rick Riordan
#11. You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.
Brian P. Cleary
#12. I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!
Jacqueline Susann
#13. For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.
Anne Edwards
#14. There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at slavery as a time when everything was happily in place - in place for whites.
William R. Ferris
#15. 'Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.'
Eva Mendes
#16. 'The Birth of a Nation' occupies a view of the South not far from Scarlett O'Hara's in 'Gone With the Wind,' and modern audiences have to wrestle with that beloved movie's romanticizing of racism.
Richard Corliss
#17. I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.
William Friedkin
#18. I have never connected with 'Gone With the Wind.' 'Lawrence of Arabia' leaves me cold.
Stephen Hunter
#19. I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.
Leslie Bibb
#20. The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath' for the underclass. And both were turned into movies that dared to be true to the books' controversial themes.
Richard Corliss
#21. You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.
Kelly Lynch
#22. You'll be in good hands with the colonel, you'll see.
The colonel? Okay, I was obviously stuck in a Gone With the Wind theme park. Or maybe a Kentucky Fried Chicken farm.
Or I was simply hallucinating ...
J.R. Rain
#23. The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.
Suzanne Fields
#24. The house looked like some gay architect had gotten drunk and watched Gone with the Wind.
Victor Gischler
#25. Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
Karin Slaughter
#26. 'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
Ranbir Kapoor
#27. Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.
Bob Seger
#28. I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
Glenn Close
#29. Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Karin Slaughter
#30. The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
Ben Stein
#31. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them. I don't think I'll ever get over Melanie's death in Gone With the Wind. But I'm still so glad I got to know her.
Will Schwalbe
#32. I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: Gone With the Wind and Titanic.
David McCullough
#33. You have to learn to overcome those feelings when somebody is negative about a production you love or if that production doesn't do well commercially. After 'Gone With the Wind', I felt older. I even thought about quitting the business.
Jill Paice
#34. I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug.
Malcolm X
#35. My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.
Dolly Parton
#36. She had always liked what Scarlett O'Hara said in Gone with the Wind: I'll think about it tomorrow. Not anymore.
Ken Follett
#37. I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.
Octavia Spencer
#38. 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
Margaret Mitchell
#39. Tomorrow. There's a Gone With the Wind museum here in the house.
Carolyn Brown
#40. I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.
Shannen Doherty
#41. To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.
Pat Conroy
#42. That's easy. Gone With the Wind. Although I could slap Scarlett silly for most of the movie. I mean, who would ever choose Ashley over Rhett?
Samantha Young
#43. When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
Rachel Cohn
#44. I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
Pat Conroy
#45. I find suggestion a hell of a lot more provocative than explicit detail. You didn't see Clark[Gable] and Vivien[leigh] rolling around in bed in Gone With The Wind, but you saw that shit eating grin on her face the next morning and you knew damned well she'd gotten properly laid.
Joan Crawford
#46. I wanted to be like Vivien Leigh in 'Gone With the Wind.' I wanted to have black hair, green eyes and break hearts.
Terry Farrell
#47. Our touchstones of slavery are 'Song of the South,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'The Birth of a Nation.' It's hard to separate the cinematic quality from the underlying themes. I appreciate the films, but the message was repugnant.
John Ridley
#48. There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', that were made into movies. And I love those movies as much as I love the books. That's really rare.
Tatiana De Rosnay
#49. I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.
M.K. Hobson
#50. In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.
Freida Pinto
#51. When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.
Stephenie Meyer
#52. J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.
Ashwin Sanghi
#53. If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
Olivia De Havilland
#54. 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.
Margaret Mitchell
#55. For I am fighting for the old days, the old ways which I love so much, but which, I fear, are now gone forever, no matter how the die may fall. For, win or lose, we lose just the same. - Ashley Wilkes, Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
#56. This town is like Gone with the Wind on mescaline!" From Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
John Berendt
#57. There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
Edmund White
#58. I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
Alison Bechdel
#59. I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,' Scarlett O'Hara - total bad girl, but you love her.
Katie McGrath
#60. When we reach the intersection with Homochitto Street, I turn right, into town, and soon we're passing Dunleith, the antebellum mansion that I always say makes Tara from Gone with the Wind look like a woodshed.
Greg Iles
#61. I was very young when I saw 'Gone With the Wind,' but I fell in love with Clark Gable. And when I got to work with him, I couldn't believe it. I still had a crush on him. He was quite an old man by then; he must have seen that I was head over heels, even though I was married.
Carroll Baker
#62. That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.
Hattie McDaniel
#64. Stick with me," CyFi had said, putting his fist in the air, "and as God is my witness, you will never go hungry again." Then he added, "That's from Gone with the Wind.
Neal Shusterman
#65. It's like Gone with the Wind or something. Strictly the 1939 brand of slapping. It only works because the slapper loves the slapee, and the slappee knows it.
A.S. King
#66. I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, all the time, because the dance was long:
Ernest Dowson
#67. The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
Ben Stein
#68. My mother gave me an Oscar de la Renta Gone with the Wind ballgown dress. I've never had a place to wear it out to because it's so old-fashioned fancy and beautiful, so I need to find a place to wear it but if I don't, I'll still keep it forever.
Elizabeth Jagger
#69. Gone with the Wind, a self-help manual that dealt with the subject of how best to cope with Yankees when they venture south.
Raymond L. Atkins
#70. Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men's help
except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help it.
Margaret Mitchell
#71. After Davy had gone to bed Anne wandered down to Victoria Island and sat there alone, curtained with fine-spun, moonlit gloom, while the water laughed around her in a duet of brook and wind.
L.M. Montgomery
#73. Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.
Margaret Mitchell
#74. 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?
Margaret Mitchell
#75. The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
Joseph Conrad
#76. Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell
#77. It's only now you're gone I see how you're my reason for doing things. Now I'm a stiltwalker with the stilts removed. My emptied trouser legs flap in the wind and I can't remember how to walk without being precipitously propped.
Sara Baume
#78. Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a handkerchief.
Margaret Mitchell
#79. Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.
Margaret Mitchell
#81. It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.
Karen Marie Moning
#82. Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.
Margaret Mitchell
#83. War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.
Margaret Mitchell
#84. To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.
Margaret Mitchell
#85. 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.
Margaret Mitchell
#87. Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.
Margaret Mitchell
#88. 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)
Margaret Mitchell
#89. They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.
Margaret Mitchell
#90. Don't forget that the boat and the water are in love with each other; you should never let them on their own; lo and behold, they have made an agreement with the wind and gone off on their honeymoon!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#91. With Dante gone, time seemed to stand still around me; the mornings just as cloudy and dark as the evenings, as if the sun had never decided to rise. There was no wind, like the world was holding its breath along with me, waiting for him to return.
Yvonne Woon
#92. Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
Margaret Mitchell
#93. They were the eyes of a happy woman, a woman around whom storms might blow without ever ruffling the serene core of her being.
Margaret Mitchell
#94. He is gone from mortal haunts: O'Dignam, sun of our morning. Fleet was his foot on the bracken: Patrick of the shaggy brow. Wail, Banba, with your wind: and wail, O ocean, with your whirlwind.
James Joyce
#95. A soft gust of wind swooped at them under the hornbeam branches, setting the shadows flurrying, and when it died into the grass, Randal laid Bevis' body down, with a stunned emptiness inside him as though something of himself had gone too.
Rosemary Sutcliff
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