Gone With the Wind Quotes from Margaret’s Book

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Gone with the wind quotes. ‘Gone With The Wind’ is a historical novel from the Civil War written by Margaret Mitchell and it involves the story of Scarlett O’Hara a flirtatious belle from the south and her consuming love for the seemingly unattainable Ashley.

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1. “Death, taxes, and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.” -Scarlett O’ Hara.

2. “Hardships make or break people.” -Rhett Butler.

3. “ She had become what Grandma Fontaine had counseled against, a woman who had seen the worst and so had nothing else to fear.”  –Margaret Mitchell.

4. “It will come to you, this love of the land. There’s no gettin’ away from it if you’re Irish.” -Gerald O’Hara.

5. “I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.” -Scarlett O’Hara.

6. “That’s Rhett Butler. He’s from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.”-Cathleen Calvert.

7. “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is.”-Ashley Wilkes.

8. “And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

9. “To her mind there were few, if any, qualities that outweighed gumption.”-Margaret Mitchell.

10. “Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”-Margaret Mitchell.

11. “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”-Margaret Mitchell.

12. “Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

13. “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”-Margaret Mitchell.

14. “I am afraid of facing life without the slow beauty of our old world that is gone.”-Margaret Mitchell.

15. “I’ll go home. And I’ll think of some way to get him back.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

16. “Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.”-Margaret Mitchell.

17. “The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it’s the only thing that lasts”-Gerald O’Hara.

18. “The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor”-Margaret Mitchell.

19. “How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!”-Margaret Mitchell.

20. “The soft green grasses where she had sat were cut to bits by heavy cannon wheels.”-Margaret Mitchell.

21. “SCARLETT O’HARA WAS not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.”-Margaret Mitchell.

22. “I’ll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

23. “I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

24. “And you, miss, are no lady. Don’t think I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any charm for me.”-Rhett Butler.

25. “You’re so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”-Rhett Butler.

26. “Tara! Home. I’ll go home. And I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all… tomorrow is another day.”-Scarlet O’Hara.

27. “So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands. ”-Rhett Butler.

28. “There’s one thing I do know… and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we’re alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.”-Rhett Butler.

29. “War, war, war. This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn’t going to be any war.-Scarlett O’Hara.

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30. “I can shoot straight, if I don’t have to shoot too far.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

31. “Oh Ashley, Ashley, I love you.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

32. “I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

33. “Oh, no, you ain’t. If you don’t care what folks say about this family, I does. And I done told you and told you, you can always tell a lady by the way she eats in front of people – like a bird.”-Mammy.

34. “Now isn’t this better than sitting at a table? A girl hasn’t got but two sides to her at the table.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

35. “Ooh, if I just wasn’t a lady, what wouldn’t I tell that varmint.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

36. “It ain’t fittin’… it ain’t fittin’. It jes’ ain’t fittin’… It ain’t fittin.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

37. “Mrs. Hamilton is in mourning, Captain Butler. But I’m sure any of our Atlanta belles would be proud to…”-Dr. Meade.

38. “Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men you mean.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

39. “Oh, Miss Scarlett, I don’t know nothing ’bout birthin’ babies! I don’t know how I could’ve told such a lie!”-Prissy.

40. “You’d rather live with that silly little fool who can’t open her mouth except to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and raise a passel of mealy-mouthed brats just like her.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

41. “Great balls of fire. Don’t bother me anymore, and don’t call me sugar.”-Scarlett O’Hara.

42. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”-Rhett Butler.

43. “Now that you’ve got your lumber mill and Frank’s money, you won’t come to me as you did to the jail, so I see I shall have to marry you.”-Rhett Butler.

44. “No, my dear, I’m not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I’d ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You’d break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn’t even trouble to sheathe her claws.”-Rhett Butler.

45. “Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”-Rhett Butler.

46. “I’ve loved you more than I’ve ever loved any woman and I’ve waited for you longer than I’ve waited for any woman.”-Rhett Butler.

47. “I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You’ve had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you’ve known have kissed you like this, have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley. I said you’re stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.”-Rhett Butler.

48. “A cat’s a better mother than you.”-Rhett Butler.

49. “You still think you’re the cutest trick in shoe leather.”-Rhett Butler.

50. “Take a good look, my dear. It’s a historic moment you can tell your grandchildren about – how you watched the Old South fall one night.”-Rhett Butler.

51. “My darling, you’re such a child. You think that by saying, ‘I’m sorry,’ all the past can be corrected.”-Rhett Butler.

52. “No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.”-Rhett Butler.

53. “I’m very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening’s over.”-Rhett Butler.

54. “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them,” ― Margaret Mitchell

55. “My darling, you’re such a child, you think by saying “I’m sorry” all the past can be corrected.”― Rhett Butler.

56. “You know what trouble I’m talkin’ ’bout. I’m talking about Mr. Ashley Wilkes. He’ll be comin’ to Atlanta when he gets his leave, and you sittin’ there waitin’ for him, just like a spider. He belongs to Miss Melanie…” ― Mammy.

57. “It will come to you, this love of the land. There’s no gettin’ away from it if you’re Irish.” ― Gerald O’Hara.

58. “Death, taxes, and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.”―Margaret Mitchell.

59. “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is.” ― Margaret Mitchell.

60. “I loved something I made up, something that’s just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn’t see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.” ― Scarlett O’Hara

61. “Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars. And when the wars were over no one ever knew what they were about.” ― Margaret Mitchell.

62. “Oh, Miss Scarlett, I don’t know nothing ’bout birthin’ babies! I don’t know how I could’ve told such a lie!” ― Prissy.

63. “That’s Rhett Butler. He’s from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.” ― Cathleen Calvert

64. “This war talk is spoiling the fun at every party this spring.” ― Scarlett O’Hara

65. “That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!” ― Scarlett O’Hara.

66. “Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.” ― Margaret Mitchell.

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67. “Hardships make or break people.” ― Margaret Mitchell

68. “It was better to know the worse than to wonder.” ― Margaret Mitchell

69. “Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.” ― Margaret Mitchell 

70. “Scarlett, the mere fact that you’ve made a success of your mill is an insult to every man who hasn’t succeeded.” ― Rhett Butler

71. “And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.” ― Margaret Mitchell

72. “Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents’ generation and from your children’s generation, too. They’ll never understand you and they’ll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: ‘There’s a chip off the old block,’ and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: ‘What an old rip Grandma must have been!’ and they’ll try to be like you.” ― Margaret Mitchell.

73. “Why, the land is the only thing in the world worth workin’ for, worth fightin’ for, worth dyin’ for because it’s the only thing that lasts.” ― Pa

74. “She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, a fate that moved too fast.”― Margaret Mitchell

Gone With the Wind Quotes from Scarlett O’Hara

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78. “Great balls of fire. Don’t bother me anymore and don’t call me sugar.” ―

79. “What a cool liar you are, Melly!” ― Scarlett O’Hara

80. “I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.” 

81. “Sir,” she said, “you are no gentleman!” 

82. “He looks as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy.” 

83. “I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.” 

84. “Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.” 

85. “If I said I was madly in love with you, you’d know I was lying.” 

86. “If he’s forgotten me, I’ll make him remember me. I’ll make him want me again.”

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