Margaret Mitchell Quotes

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• There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.
• Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
• I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.
• 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…
• I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
• . . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a…
• I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I…
• 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…
• Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.
• Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.
• 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…
• 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…
• After all, tomorrow is another day.
• Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
• Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only…
• The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
• With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
• The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
• 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…
• Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

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