Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.
As God is my witness, as God is my witness they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, st...
You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.
Pride & honor & truth & virtue & kindliness," he enumerated silkily. "You are right, Scarlett. They aren't important when a boat is sinking. But look around you at your friends. Either they are bringi...
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it...
الزمن والواقع ابتعدا، مختلطين معا ككابوس لا يلمس ولا يدرك.
إياك أن تخلط بين ورق اللعب وشرب الويسكى ما لم تكن مفطوماً على الويسكى الأيرلندى المقطرة. (جيرالد)
Two of Ma's darkies
To survive a family must present an unbroken front to the world.
Then--then you mean I've ruined it all--that you don't love me any more? That's right.
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.
The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own.
Tesoro, il mondo perdona, in fin dei conti, tutto, meno il fatto che la gente si occupi dei fatti propri.
Some day I’m going to do and say everything I want to do and say, and if people don’t like it I don’t care.
Scarlett permitted the embrace - because in the dark smoke- fill the kitchen, there had been born a greater respect for her sister in law, a closer feeling of comradeship.
Oh, you have the nastiest way of making virtues sound so stupid.But virtues are stupid. Do you care if people talk?
Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind. - Rhett Butler
Men should either be clean shaven, mustached or wear full beards. That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do, she thought,
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.
I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.