If for no other reason she hated the Yankees because they kept her from having real coffee with sugar and thick cream in it.
He said nothing in the world was worth what this war was going to do to us. He said there wasn’t anything at all to glory – it was just misery and dirt.
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.
Let’s don’t be too hot headed and let’s don’t have any war. 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.
Eavesdroppers often hear highly entertaining and instructive things.
She thinks I’m a hussy,′ thought Scarlett. ‘And perhaps she’s right at that!
She only did – did what she felt she had to do. And our men did what they felt they had to do. People must do what they must do. We don’t all think alike or act alike and it’s wrong to – to judge others by ourselves.
My darling, you’re such a child. You think that by saying, “I’m sorry,” all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
Oh, I don’t care! I don’t care what they say!” she whispered, as a sweet madness swept over her.
The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?
As though she thought I was to blame for what happened,” Scarlett thought indignantly.
Yes, life has a glitter now-of a sort. That’s what’s wrong with it. The old days had no glitter but they had a charm, a beauty, a slow-paced glamour.
So you could not love me? That is as I hoped. For while I like you immensely, I do not love you and it would be tragic indeed for you to suffer twice from unrequited love, wouldn’t it, dear?
It’s hard to be strict with a man who loses money so pleasantly.
Melly is the only woman friend I ever had,” she thought forlornly, “the only woman except Mother who really loved me. She’s like Mother, too. Everyone who knew her has clung to her skirts.
He had never once crossed the borders of friendliness with her and, when she thought of this, fresh anger rose, the anger of hurt pride and feminine vanity.
She smiled – it wasn’t a grin this time – but just a smile that made me feel she could see my soul and I wished to God my soul had been cleaner.
Twill come to you, this love of land.
Peace had failed her and Ashley had failed her, both in the same day, and it was as if the last crevice in the shell had been sealed, the final layer hardened. She had.
All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started ward didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money.