She knew she had changed too, but not as they had changed, and it puzzled her. She sat and watched them and she felt herself an alien among them, as alien and lonely as if she had come from another wo...
She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile.
People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to–to judge others by ourselves.
Oh, Rhett, why do there have to be wars? It would have been so much better for the Yankees to pay for the darkies—or even for us to give them the darkies free of charge than to have this happen. It is...
Notkolle painunut sohva, jolla he istuivat, suuri, korkea kirjoituspöytä ja äidin hauras, leikkauksilla koristettu tuoli sen edessä, hylly, jonka lokerot olivat vielä täynnä hänen hienolla käsialallaa...
No, sanoi Mummo katsoen häntä tutkivasti kasvoihin, mikä Tarassa on hullusti? Mitä sinä salailet?Scarlett katsoi teräviin vanhoihin silmiin ja näki, että hän voisi kertoa totuuden kyynelittä. Ei kukaa...
Mammy’s
Let’s don’t be too hot headed and let’s don’t have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.
It was a man’s world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took the credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roare...
In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.
If only he hadn’t gone out with the Klan!
I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.
I don't want any money for it, he said. It's a gift. Scarlett's mouth dropped open. The line was so closely, so carefully drawn where gifts from men were concerned. Candy and flowers, dear, Ellen had...
Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm...
Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
He thinks the war is all wrong but he’s willing to fight and die anyway, and that takes lots more courage than fighting for something you think is right.
Gradually, Scarlett drew courage from the brave faces of her friends and from the merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn! (Rhett Butler)
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...
Even if you think such things, why do you say them? she scolded. If you’d just think what you please but keep your mouth shut, everything would be so much nicer.