Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.
Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. – Rhett Butler.
If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything...
I don’t see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as ‘Bonnie,’ Mae West as ‘Belle,’ and Stepin Fetchit as ‘Uncle Peter.’
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.
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.
My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so – if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn’t have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.
Scarlett, always save something to fear – even as you save something to love.
I will think about that tomorrow!
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!
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it’s be brave or else be killed.
I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.
What is there to see in Europe? I’ll bet those foreigners can’t show us a thing we haven’t got right here in Georgia.
The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself – and keep it there.
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.
It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.
You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn’t make them. Stupid people made them.