Margaret Mitchell Quotes
Margaret Mitchell Quotes
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
4308 Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
4417 In a weak moment, I have written a book.
3025 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.
4412 To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.
4552 Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear - even as you save something to love...
1425 Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.
2347 After all, tomorrow is another day!
4696 Hardships make or break people.
4301 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.
1088 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.
3257 Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.
3728 Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.”
“Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.
4340 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.
1549 So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!
3421 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
3416 It was better to know the worst than to wonder.
2279 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.
4107 I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.
3542 You're Ma's own blood son, but did she take on that time Tony Fontaine shot you in the leg? No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony's aim. Said she guessed the licker was spoiling his marksmanship.
4466 But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.
4146 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.
4646 There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..
4621 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.
3635 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)
4149 War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.
2126 Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.
2377 Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
1675 Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to find
that their wives do have sense?"
"Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.
3883 [T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
1300 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.
2496 What’s broken is broken - and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.
2440 There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.
2827 With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
1751 The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
1162 Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes.
4451 I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
3488 I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
4070 As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
1951 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.
4486 That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
1654 men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them
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