Margaret Mitchell Quotes

She was a woman now and youth was gone.

Suddenly she was standing at Tara again with the world about her ears, desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender-hearte...

The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely on her shoulders now. She was twenty-five and looked it, and so there as no longer any need to try to be attractive.

There was madness and magic in the slim body he held, and the lips turned up to him were red and trembling and he kissed her.

There was no going back and she was going forward.

There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt. Had she been told, she would have been pleased b...

Vaikk' oot kallis, armahin, mulle, kunnia kuitenkin kalliimpi on.' Se on varsin sattuvasti sanottu, eikö olekin? Ainakin paremmin kuin mitä pystyisin itse keksimään tällä hetkellä. Sillä minä rakastan...

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

What gentlemen say and what they think are two different things.

Always save something to fear, even as you save something to love.

First, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.

Had awakened no idea of what passion might be or tenderness or true intimacy of body or spirit.

Locale and point of focus and heroine. She leaves the great battlefields of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, Bull Run and Antietam to the others and places the Civil War in the middle of Scarlett O’Hara’s li...

She could recall nothing about Charles except the dying-calf look on his face when she told him she would marry him.

Stick-in-themuddish

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.

Whenever Gerald galloped around the bend in the road and saw his own roof rising through green branches, his heart swelled with pride as though each sight of it were the first sight.

الأرض هى الشئ الوحيد القيم فى هذه الدنيا، لأنها الشئ الوحيد الذى يدوم... ولا تنسى هذه الحقيقة، إنها الشئ الوحيد الذى يستحق الجهد فى سبيله، يستحق النضال من أجله، يستحق الموت حفاظاً عليه. (جيرالد(

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.

This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent