“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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.”Margaret Mitchell Source: Gone With the Wind
“[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.”Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)Source: Gone with the Wind