The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying.
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.
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.
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.
You’re so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.
Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, “The dogs bark but the caravan passes on”? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.
Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.
Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.
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.
Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.
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.
In a weak moment, I have written a book.
That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
It was better to know the worst than to wonder.