Margaret Mitchell

Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was…

— Margaret Mitchell

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with…

— Margaret Mitchell

Ser eyes met his, hers naked with pleading, his remote as mountain lakes under gray skies. She saw in them defeat of…

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.

— Margaret Mitchell

“Archie's carrying him to the vacant lot near Belle's. He's dead. Shot through the head.”

— Margaret Mitchell

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had…

— Margaret Mitchell

All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is…

— Margaret Mitchell

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt…

— Margaret Mitchell

Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood…

— Margaret Mitchell

you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've…

— Margaret Mitchell

So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well,…

— Margaret Mitchell

No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars,…

— Margaret Mitchell

But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into…

— Margaret Mitchell

Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have…

— Margaret Mitchell

But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else."…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Because she had always been happy, she wanted everyone about her to be happy or, at least, pleased with themselves. To this…

— Margaret Mitchell

“It had begun to dawn on him that this same sweet pretty little head was a “good head for figures.” In fact,…

— Margaret Mitchell

I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Because she hated herself, she hated them all with the fury of the thwarted and humiliated love of sixteen. Only a little…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Yes, I’m sorry for you — sorry to see you throwing away happiness with both hands and reaching out for something that…

— Margaret Mitchell

She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon…

— Margaret Mitchell

My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business

— Margaret Mitchell

“There will never again be men like them," said Carreen softly. "No one can take their places.”

— Margaret Mitchell

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and…

— Margaret Mitchell

“A frost lay over all her emotions and she thought that she would never feel anything warmly again.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

“Some day I’m going to do and say everything I want to do and say, and if people don’t like it I…

— Margaret Mitchell

If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.

— Margaret Mitchell

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

— Margaret Mitchell

“Mistress! What would I get out of that except a passel of brats?" -Scarlett O'Hara”

— Margaret Mitchell

“You know she said I was going to marry a gentleman with jet-black hair and a long black mustache, and I don't…

— Margaret Mitchell

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

“There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

“Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life, waiting to catch you between husbands.”

— Margaret Mitchell

“it came to him that Tara, dear though it was, and the County folk, with their open hearts and open houses, were…

— Margaret Mitchell