Margaret Mitchell Quotes

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

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...

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...

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you. -Rhett Butler

Dearest one, do you remember When we last did meet?

Dio mi è testimone che gli yankees non mi abbatteranno. Supererò questo; e quando sarà passato, non soffrirò mai più la fame. Né io né i miei. Dovessi rubare o uccidere...Dio mi è testimone che non so...

Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift. She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made...

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.

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...

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 all his exasperating qualities, she grew to look forward to his calls. There was something exciting about him that she could not analyze, something different from any man she had ever known. There...

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.

Indeed! he said coolly. Well, who's the happy father? Ashley?

Just think, Scarlett, a half-million dollars, if you'd only restrained your fiery nature and not rushed into wedlock again!

Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation,

Svi su ratovi sveti - rece - za one koji se u njima bore. Kad ljudi koji pokrecu ratove ne bi od njih napravili svetinje ko bi bio toliko lud da se tuce? Ali ma kakve bile krilatice koje besjednici do...

There was a glow of grim pride in her usually gentle face, approbation and a fierce joy in her smile that equaled the fiery tumult in Scarlett's own bosom.'Why-why-she's like me! She understands how I...

With unerring African instinct, the negroes had all discovered that Gerald had a loud bark and no bite at all, and they took shameless advantage of him.

You know I don't read novels,' she said and, trying to equal his jesting mood, went on: 'Besides, you one said it was the height of bad form for husbands and wives to love each other.''I once said too...

And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.