Top 100 Quotes About Margaret Mitchell
#1. I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.
Shannen Doherty
#2. Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)
Joseph Brodsky
#3. According to Margaret Mitchell, the Civil War destroyed a civilization of unsurpassable amenity, chivalry, and grace.
Pat Conroy
#4. I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
Pat Conroy
#5. Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.
Kathryn Stockett
#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. I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
Mickey Spillane
#8. It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods.
Jon Stewart
#9. You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.
Margaret Mitchell
#10. If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.
Margaret Mitchell
#12. He was so tender, so infinitely soothing, she longed to stay in his arms forever. With such strong arms about her, surely nothing could harm her.
Margaret Mitchell
#16. 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.
Margaret Mitchell
#18. That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
Margaret Mitchell
#19. These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.
Margaret Mitchell
#20. She knew what she wanted and went after it by the shortest route ...
Margaret Mitchell
#21. 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?
Margaret Mitchell
#23. Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way
Margaret Mitchell
#25. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.
Margaret Mitchell
#26. Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.
Margaret Mitchell
#28. Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
Margaret Mitchell
#30. I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.
Margaret Mitchell
#31. As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock along just the same, in spite of her heartbreak. Her
Margaret Mitchell
#32. She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
Margaret Mitchell
#33. He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even when she saw defeat was inevitable.
Margaret Mitchell
#34. Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.
Margaret Mitchell
#36. In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.
Margaret Mitchell
#37. To survive a family must present an unbroken front to the world.
Margaret Mitchell
#38. If for no other reason she hated the Yankees because they kept her from having real coffee with sugar and thick cream in it.
Margaret Mitchell
#39. Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.
Margaret Mitchell
#40. 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
#41. He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
Margaret Mitchell
#42. 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.
Margaret Mitchell
#43. Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
Margaret Mitchell
#44. 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.
Margaret Mitchell
#47. In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really, it took a
lot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose.
Margaret Mitchell
#48. She thinks I'm a hussy,' thought Scarlett. 'And perhaps she's right at that!
Margaret Mitchell
#49. This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent
Margaret Mitchell
#50. He was so very large and male, and excessively male creatures always discomposed her.
Margaret Mitchell
#51. Suddenly she was standing at Tara again with the world about her ears, desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender-hearted.
Margaret Mitchell
#52. All she could think of was that
she loved him--everything about
him, from the proud lift of his
gold head to his slender dark
boots, loved his laughter even when
it mystified her, loved his
bewildering silences.
Margaret Mitchell
#53. The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
Margaret Mitchell
#55. Give me a good horse to ride and some good licker to drink and a good girl to court and a bad girl to have fun with and anybody can have their own Europe ... What do we care about missing the tour?
Margaret Mitchell
#56. Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.
Margaret Mitchell
#57. 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
Margaret Mitchell
#58. Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.
'God's nightgown!' she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved.
Margaret Mitchell
#59. Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?
Margaret Mitchell
#61. 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.
Margaret Mitchell
#62. Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy
Margaret Mitchell
#63. 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
#64. Influence is everything, and guilt or innocence merely an academic question
Margaret Mitchell
#65. 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
Margaret Mitchell
#66. 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
#67. 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.
Margaret Mitchell
#68. She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.
Margaret Mitchell
#69. They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things.
Margaret Mitchell
#70. She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself ...
Margaret Mitchell
#71. 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.
Margaret Mitchell
#72. Men are so conceited they'll believe anything that flatters them
Margaret Mitchell
#73. She ( Margaret Thatcher )is democratic enough to talk down to anyone
Austin Mitchell
#74. I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
Margaret Mitchell
#75. The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own.
Margaret Mitchell
#76. And if we folks have a motto, it's this: '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.
Margaret Mitchell
#77. Ashley was imprisoned forever by words which were stronger than any jail.
Margaret Mitchell
#78. In the excitement of trying on dresses she had forgotten Mammy's ironclad rule that, before going to any party, the O'Hara girls must be crammed so full of food at home they would be unable to eat any refreshments at the party.
Margaret Mitchell
#79. You look like you'd swallowed a ramrod and it isn't becoming"-Rhett Butler
Margaret Mitchell
#80. It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.
Margaret Mitchell
#81. 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
#82. 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.
Margaret Mitchell
#83. The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.
Margaret Mitchell
#84. 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.
Margaret Mitchell
#86. 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.
Margaret Mitchell
#88. He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.
Margaret Mitchell
#89. I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.
Margaret Mitchell
#90. All the bullying instincts in her nature rose to the surface. It was not that she was basically unkind. It was because she was so frightened and unsure of herself she was harsh lest others learn her inadequacies: and refuse her authority.
Margaret Mitchell
#91. So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time."
"I hope not. It's a girl.
Margaret Mitchell
#92. And don't think you can lay down the load, ever. Because you can't. I know.
Margaret Mitchell
#93. It's hard to be strict with a man who loses money so pleasantly.
Margaret Mitchell
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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.
Margaret Mitchell
#97. 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.
Margaret Mitchell
#98. As though she thought I was to blame for what happened, Scarlett thought indignantly.
Margaret Mitchell
#100. 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.
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