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But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?
— Margaret Mitchell
I've never bothered about what people said.
— Margaret Mitchell
Why be an ostrich?
— Margaret Mitchell
Whut gempmums says an' what dey thinks is two diffunt things.
— Margaret Mitchell
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.
— Margaret Mitchell
If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
— Margaret Mitchell
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.
— Margaret Mitchell
She could never respect a man who let her run over him...
— Margaret Mitchell
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,
— Margaret Mitchell
Don't be a goose!
— Margaret Mitchell
This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent
— Margaret Mitchell
Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days.
— Margaret Mitchell
Was Tara still standing? Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?
— Margaret Mitchell
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
— Margaret Mitchell
According to Margaret Mitchell, the Civil War destroyed a civilization of unsurpassable amenity, chivalry, and grace.
— Pat Conroy
Scarlett O'Hara wasn't pretty.
— Margaret Mitchell
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
Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation,
— Margaret Mitchell
and the most insane gossip tortured the town
— Margaret Mitchell
Oh, I don't care! I don't care what they say! she whispered, as a sweet madness swept over her.
— Margaret Mitchell
The husband is always the last to find out.
— Margaret Mitchell
She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.
— Margaret Mitchell
Yankees in Georgia! How did they ever get in?
— Margaret Mitchell
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
I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.
— Margaret Mitchell
The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.
— Margaret Mitchell
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
— Margaret Mitchell
He was so very large and male, and excessively male creatures always discomposed her.
— Margaret Mitchell
Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way
— Margaret Mitchell
As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
— Margaret Mitchell
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
Ashley was imprisoned forever by words which were stronger than any jail.
— Margaret Mitchell
Dearest one, do you remember When we last did meet?
— Margaret Mitchell
Influence is everything, and guilt or innocence merely an academic question
— Margaret Mitchell
Twill come to you, this love of land.
— Margaret Mitchell
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
— Margaret Mitchell
I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.
— Margaret Mitchell
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
What will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?
— Margaret Mitchell
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
— Mickey Spillane
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.
— Margaret Mitchell
What did they know about you? I know you.
— Margaret Mitchell
It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.
— Margaret Mitchell
...war was not glory but dirt and misery.
— Margaret Mitchell
Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.
— Margaret Mitchell
The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.
— Margaret Mitchell
The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.
— Margaret Mitchell
Times never change when there's a need for honest work to be done.
— Margaret Mitchell
A frost lay over all her emotions and she thought that she would never feel anything warmly again.
— Margaret Mitchell
I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.
— Margaret Mitchell
I will think about that tomorrow!
— Margaret Mitchell
I only know that I love you.
That's your misfortune. — Margaret Mitchell
That's your misfortune. — Margaret Mitchell
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.
— Margaret Mitchell
Melly couldn't say boo to a goose.
— Margaret Mitchell
Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.
— Margaret Mitchell
Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.
— Margaret Mitchell
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.
— Margaret Mitchell
If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything ...
— Margaret Mitchell
Better to be tormented with memories of Ashley than Charleston accents.
— Margaret Mitchell
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
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.
— Margaret Mitchell
There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do..
— Margaret Mitchell
You have all the passion for life I lack.
— Margaret Mitchell
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
I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
— Margaret Mitchell
A minor point at such a moment.
— Margaret Mitchell
I wonder if they know they are fighting for a cause that was lost the minute the first shot as fired.
— Margaret Mitchell
Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.
— Margaret Mitchell
If only he hadn't gone out with the Klan!
— Margaret Mitchell
The coarse impudence of Rhett Butler. But, if he possessed
— Margaret Mitchell
I've got something that most pretty ladies haven't got - and that's a mind that's made up.
— Margaret Mitchell
It's hard to be strict with a man who loses money so pleasantly.
— Margaret Mitchell
Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
— Margaret Mitchell
You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
— Margaret Mitchell
The Cause they had thought could never fall had fallen forever.
— Margaret Mitchell
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.
— Margaret Mitchell
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky
And now in this hour of greatest need, there was no one. It was incredible that she could be so completely alone, and frightened, and far from home.
— Margaret Mitchell
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
— Margaret Mitchell
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
— Margaret Mitchell
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
If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.
— Margaret Mitchell
Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
— Margaret Mitchell
Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
— Margaret Mitchell
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
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.
— Margaret Mitchell
I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.
— Margaret Mitchell
She felt puzzled and ashamed, as always when people attributed to her emotions and motives they possessed and thought she shared.
— Margaret Mitchell
After all, tomorrow is another day!
— Margaret Mitchell
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
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
It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?
— Margaret Mitchell
long squirrel guns
— Margaret Mitchell
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.
— Margaret Mitchell
There's just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.
— Margaret Mitchell
Crackers are short on sparkle.
— Margaret Mitchell
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn! (Rhett Butler)
— Margaret Mitchell
The cause didn't seem sacred to her. The war did not seem to be holy affair.
— Margaret Mitchell