Margaret Mitchell Quotes

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“So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.”

“I hope not. It’s a girl.”

“I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.”

“But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.”

“You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.”

“All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.”

“you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.'
'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.”

“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”

“It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.”

“It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?”

“Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a handkerchief.”

“Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.”

“[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.”

“I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.”

“But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?”

“The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain”

“Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy”

“She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.”

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.”

“She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.”

“Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.”

“Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.”

“His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.”

“Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.”

“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.”

“Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way”

“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.”