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

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

Rhett, do you really–is it to protect me that you–” “Yes, my dear, it is my much advertised chivalry that makes me protect you.” The mocking light began to dance in his black eyes and...

I hope not. It’s a girl.

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.

What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do: to make those about them feel at ease and pleased with themselves. It was this happy feminine conspiracy which made Southern...

I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in...

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

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

Scarlett’s mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles’ sabre in...

didnt men ever think about anything that really mattered?

Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.

Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast...

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

After all, tomorrow is another day!

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes.

Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men’s help–except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help...

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena’s small ugly face.” – Rhett Butler

But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?

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...

What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Oh – a diamond ring – and Rhett, do buy a great big one!

Hardships make or break people.

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...

Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling, light-footed...

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them. -Scarlett O’Hara

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...

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...

If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying.

Perhaps – I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

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

She had never understood either of the men she had loved and so she had lost them both. Now, she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved...

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

Fo’ Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We’s got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin’ ’bout bringin’ babies. -Prissy

I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.

It seems we’ve been at cross purposes, doesn’t it? But it’s no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie...

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...

As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.

He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even when...

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

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...

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, “The dogs bark but the caravan passes on”? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

I’ll think of it 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.

You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,’ Ellen told her daughter. ‘You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen...