Margaret Mitchell citations

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“Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.”

“The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts"….. Gerald O'Hara, 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.”

“Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.”

“Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.”

“I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.”

“I only know that I love you.
That's your misfortune.”

“The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor”

“How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!”

“How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!”

“He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.”

“Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.”

“If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.”

“Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.”

“Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.”

“My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business" - Rhett Butler”

“Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.”

“In a weak moment, I have written a book.”

“She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.”

“Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?”

“Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.”

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

“She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.”

“God help the man who ever really loves you.”

“Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.”

“Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.”

“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”

“She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile.”

“There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..”

“As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.”