Margaret Mitchell quotes - page 4

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything. (Margaret Mitchell)
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it. View quote
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Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall. View quote
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Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain. View quote
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To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her. View quote
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My dear, I don't give a damn. View quote
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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. View quote
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You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip. View quote
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I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost. (Margaret Mitchell)
All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try. View quote
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Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady. View quote
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Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief. View quote
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Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy. View quote
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You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how. View quote
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If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying. View quote
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I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn. View quote
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Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. View quote
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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, Gone With The Wind. View quote
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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. (Margaret Mitchell)
She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires. View quote
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Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them. View quote
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As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again. View quote
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Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness. View quote
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