Margaret Mitchell Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Margaret Mitchell on Wise Famous Quotes.
War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.
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.
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.
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.
Men should either be clean shaven, mustached or wear full beards. "That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do," she thought,
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
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.
She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.
(Ashley said about Melanie)
(Ashley said about Melanie)
Any man who was fool enough to fall for a simper, a faint and an 'Oh how wonderful you are!' wasn't worth having. But they all seemed to like it.
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.
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.
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
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.
To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.
He wasn't a gentleman and there was no telling what men would do when they weren't gentlemen. There was no standard to judge them by.
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.
He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.
It was his goatee that annoyed her the most. Men should either be clean shaven, mustached or wear full beards.
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
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.
Some day I'm going to do and say everything I want to do and say, and if people don't like it I don't care.
It was one thing to know that Ashley was engaged but it was another to hear people talk about it so casually.
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"
An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.
An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.
Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.
If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything ...
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?
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
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.
Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.
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.
They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.
Now he was gone and she was married to a man she not only did not love but for whom she had an active contempt.
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
They were the eyes of a happy woman, a woman around whom storms might blow without ever ruffling the serene core of her being.
Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy