Occupation: Author Birth: November 8, 1900 Death: August 16, 1949
Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woma….
I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - ….
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 anyth….
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them..
God help the man who ever really loves you..
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..
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady..
It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I pref….
There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do..
Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love..
Southerners can never resist a losing cause..
I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters….
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 ….
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 els….
Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a railroad train your death woul….
All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?.
No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one rea….
I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later..
The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much..