Margaret Mitchell: Trending quotes

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”

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

“My dear, I don't give a damn.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Hardships make or break people.”

“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.”

“It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”

“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”

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

“I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.”

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