Margaret Mitchell Quotes

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

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.

If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

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 was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

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

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

The happiest days are when babies come.

Hardships make or break people.

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!