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.
Sir, she said, you are no gentleman!
She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.
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?
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.
Melly couldn't say boo to a goose.
In the excitement of trying on dresses she had forgotten Mammy’s ironclad rule that, before going to any party, the O’Hara girls must be crammed so full of food at home they would be unable to eat any...
Há uma penalidade sempre ligada às coisas que mais desejamos. É o isolamento. pg 637
Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned th...
A pain slashed through her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.
Да, съжалявам те, защото си истинско дете, Скарлет. Дете, което плаче, защото не може да пипне луната. А какво би правило то с нея, ако най-после я достигне?
إياك أن تخلط بين ورق اللعب وشرب الويسكى ما لم تكن مفطوماً على الويسكى الأيرلندى المقطرة. (جيرالد)
To survive a family must present an unbroken front to the world.
The blinding beauty that transfigures even the plainest woman when she is utterly protected and utterly loved and is giving back that love a thousandfold.
She knew what she wanted and went after it by the shortest route...
She could never respect a man who let her run over him...
I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.
I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that...