You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

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.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn.

Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.

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

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.

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

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.

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

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

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

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.

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

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

Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

Well fiddle dee dee!

She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

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.