Margaret Mitchell Quotes - Page 2

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

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

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.

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.

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.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.

you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.