Margaret Mitchell citations

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

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

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

“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.”

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“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 livre Autant en emporte le vent

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

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

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

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“After all, tomorrow is another day!”

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

“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 livre Autant en emporte le vent

“My dear, I don't give a damn.”

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

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

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

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

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

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

“Hardships make or break people.”

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

“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 livre Autant en emporte le vent

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

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

“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 livre Autant en emporte le vent

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

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

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

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

“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 livre Autant en emporte le vent

“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 livre Autant en emporte le vent

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

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

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

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

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

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

“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 livre Autant en emporte le vent

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

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

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

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

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

Margaret Mitchell livre Autant en emporte le vent

“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.”

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“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 livre Autant en emporte le vent