Explore Quotes by Margaret Mitchell

There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

My dear, I don't give a damn.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

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

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

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.

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

Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

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

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

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

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.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.