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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist, and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. November 1900 – 16. August 1949  •  Other names Maria Mitchell
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Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
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Famous Margaret Mitchell Quotes

“Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.”

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 book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Variant: Until you 've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Source: Gone with the Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell Quotes about love

“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 book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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…”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell Quotes about the world

“He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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 book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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!”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell

Source: Gone With the Wind

“She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell: Trending quotes

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell Quotes

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

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 book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't… My dear, I don't give a damn.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts"….. Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind.”

Margaret Mitchell

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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 book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.”

Margaret Mitchell

Source: Przemine̜ło Z Wiatrem

“Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business" - Rhett Butler”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“In a weak moment, I have written a book.”

Margaret Mitchell

“She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Variant: Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
Source: Gone with the Wind

“Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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 book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.”

Margaret Mitchell

Source: Gone With The Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell

“Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.”

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 book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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