God help the man who ever really loves you.

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..

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

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

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.

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

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.

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

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

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

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

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.

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

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

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

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.

You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

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 again, not even for you.

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

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

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

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

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

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

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.

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.

Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.

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

She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.

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

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

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.

The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own.

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.

Crackers are short on sparkle.

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.

I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way