She had the temper of a Tartar and the rages of a wild cat and, at such times, she did not seem to care what she said or how much it hurt.
Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scar...
Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman...
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything...for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts, and don't you be forgetting it! 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting f...
Just think, Scarlett, a half-million dollars, if you'd only restrained your fiery nature and not rushed into wedlock again!
I’ve got something that most pretty ladies haven’t got—and that’s a mind that’s made up.
I’m very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening’s over.
It's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. And it's very bad for a woman not to be afrai...
It had begun to dawn on him that this same sweet pretty little head was a good head for figures. In fact, a much better one than his own and the knowledge was disquieting. He was thunderstruck to disc...
Indeed! he said coolly. Well, who's the happy father? Ashley?
If God had seen fit to punish them so, then God could very well do without prayers. Religion had always been a bargaining process with Scarlett. She promised God good behavior in exchange for favors....
I loved something I made up
He never really existed at all, except in my imagination, she thought wearily. I loved something that I made up...I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding...
For I am fighting for the old days, the old ways which I love so much, but which, I fear, are now gone forever, no matter how the die may fall. For, win or lose, we lose just the same. - Ashley Wilkes...
For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality... He looked on people, and he neither li...
But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,a...
But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else.Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and s...
And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
All the bullying instincts in her nature rose to the surface. It was not that she was basically unkind. It was because she was so frightened and unsure of herself she was harsh lest others learn her i...
I believe woman could manage everything in the world without men's help–except birthing babies...