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 f….

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

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured..

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 plea….

It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over twenty-five thousand copies and it is….

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

The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt s….

Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents' generation an….

All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, ….

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got..

I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idi….

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

I loved something I made up.

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

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite..

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

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 sav….

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories..

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 th….

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything..

So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that ….