Quotes About Scarlett O'hara

#1. Scarlett O'Hara wasn't pretty.

Margaret Mitchell

#2. As he slowly climbed the stairs, Cassidy looked upward and vowed in Scarlett O"Hara-like fashion, "As God is my witness, I shall never kick a man who"s got my dick in his mouth again.

Ethan Day

#3. What will I do? I'll do as I have always done, darling. I will go on. I will survive. I shall overcome." It's tough to manage sounding like Scarlett O'Hara, Gloria Gaynor, and a one-woman civil rights movement all at the same time, but Anjoli pulled it off with aplomb.

Jennifer Coburn

#4. I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

Linda Fairstein

#5. It (her wedding dress) was the kind of dress that both Scarlett O'Hara and Princess Diana would have deemed 'over the top'.

Jenny Lawson

#6. I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

Pat Conroy

#7. I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

Margaret Mitchell

#8. 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

#9. I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

Ronald Reagan

#10. Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

Donna Mills

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

Margaret Mitchell

#12. 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.

Margaret Mitchell

#13. Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.

Alexandra Ripley

#14. I will never go anywhere with vampires again, I promised myself. I let the lure of the money and the excitement of the travel pull me in. But I won't do that again. As God is my witness . . . Then I had to laugh out loud. Scarlett O'Hara, I wasn't. "I'll never be hungry again,

Charlaine Harris

#15. Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

Toni Braxton

#16. Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

Margaret Mitchell

#17. '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

#18. I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

Glenn Close

#19. Scarlett O'Hara's father, Thomas, is an Irish immigrant who names his plantation Tara, after the home of the High Kings in Ireland. In an appealing nod to the "luck of the Irish," we read that Thomas O'Hara won his lands in a card game!

Rashers Tierney

#20. Scarlett (O'Hara) taught that one could be hungry and despairing, but not broken and not without resources, spiritual in nature, that precluded one from surrendering without a fight

Pat Conroy

#21. To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.

Steve Erickson

#22. She had always liked what Scarlett O'Hara said in Gone with the Wind: I'll think about it tomorrow. Not anymore.

Ken Follett

#23. He picked her up. Picked her up and carried her, as if she were Scarlett O'Hara and he were Rhett Butler, if Rhett had been the kind of guy to go down on Scarlett in a doorway. Which, let's be honest, he probably was.

Ruthie Knox

#24. Fiddlesticks" is Scarlett O'Hara's way of saying "Fuck this shit.

Mary Norris

#25. Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.

Norma Shearer

#26. I have never been the fiddle-dee-dee, carefree Scarlett O'Hara his fantasies imagined. I'm more of the Civil War version - tired, hard, and determined.

Jennifer Harrison

#27. the remnants of her Georgia drawl always sounded a bit sad. She made him think of an aging Scarlett O'Hara torn from Tara's halls but clinging to her pride and, with the help of a beauty parlor, her flaming hair.

Richard Laymon

#28. 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

#29. The sun was as flirty as Scarlett O'Hara with the Tarleton twins, breaking through the clouds in spectacular bursts that seemed like personal favors and then retreating for hours, days, and making us all ache for just a glimpse.

Lorna Landvik

#30. How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!

Margaret Mitchell

#31. 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

#32. 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.

Margaret Mitchell

#33. And she understood. She would have done the same. She understood, too, why she'd been wrong to offer Ballyhara as a substitute for land he'd farmed all his life. It made all his work meaningless, and the work of his sons, his brothers, his father, his father's father.

Alexandra Ripley

#34. The faint of lemon verbena surrounded her, floating gently from Eleanor Butler's silk gown and silken hair. It was the fragrance that had always been part of Ellen O'Hara, the scent for Scarlett of comfort, of safety, of love, of life before the War

Alexandra Ripley

#35. 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.

Margaret Mitchell

#36. 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

#37. She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

Margaret Mitchell

#38. His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

Margaret Mitchell

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

Margaret Mitchell

#40. She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.

Margaret Mitchell

#41. War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

Margaret Mitchell

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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