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.
Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.
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.
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.
Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.
Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.
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.
So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.”“I hope not. It’s a girl.
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 you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!
A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena’s small ugly face.” – Rhett Butler
These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.
Melly is the only woman friend I ever had,” she thought forlornly, “the only woman except Mother who really loved me. She’s like Mother, too. Everyone who knew her has clung to her skirts.
There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..
War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.
She thinks I’m a hussy,’ thought Scarlett. ‘And perhaps she’s right at that!
Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men’s help–except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help it.
In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really, it took alot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose.
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.
I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.
I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.
Don’t you suppose men get surprised after they’re married to findthat their wives do have sense?””Well, it’s too late den. Dey’s already mahied.
Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
What’s 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 live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.
That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,’ Ellen told her daughter. ‘You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.
[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent
But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?
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.
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.
He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even when she saw defeat was inevitable.
I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.
You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
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.
To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O’Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.
Oh – a diamond ring – and Rhett, do buy a great big one!
I stood there in the doorway before you saw me and I watched you,’ he said.’And I watched the other girls. And they all looked as though their faces came out of one mold. Yours didn’t.
Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.
you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.”My pet, I’ve been to the Devil and he’s a very dull fellow. I won’t go there again, not even for you.
If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying.
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.
There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.
Fo’ Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We’s got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin’ ’bout bringin’ babies. -Prissy
Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.
Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.’God’s nightgown!’ she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved.
You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.
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.
Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.
Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Death and taxes and childbirth. There’s never any convenient time for any of them.
Death and taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them!
Death and taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them!
There ain’t nothing from the outside can lick any of us.
Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Until you’ve lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
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 want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn’t something left in life of charm and grace.