Margaret Mitchell quotes

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. (Margaret Mitchell)
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business" - Rhett Butler. View quote
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Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
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. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again.... Scarlett, always save something to fear- even as you save something to love... View quote
Margaret Mitchell
I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
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. View quote
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I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow. (Margaret Mitchell)
Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler. View quote
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Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. View quote
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He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster. View quote
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Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them. View quote
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Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart. View quote
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There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.. View quote
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I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy. View quote
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I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.” "I hope not. It's a girl. (Margaret Mitchell)
Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. View quote
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It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor? View quote
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His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared. View quote
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What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia. View quote
Margaret Mitchell