Margaret Mitchell citations

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”

“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.”

“My dear, I don't give a damn.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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…”

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

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

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

“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.”

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