Margaret Mitchell
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.Collection: Best
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.Collection: Courage
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.Collection: Peace
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.Collection: Freedom
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
After all, tomorrow is another day.
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 thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
My dear, I don't give a damn.
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.
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
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 as from the upbuilding of one.
There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.
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.
Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.Collection: Passion
Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.Collection: Hope
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.Collection: Inspirational
Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.Collection: Fun
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.Collection: Lost Love
If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.Collection: Strong
The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brainCollection: Women
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honorCollection: Liars
Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.Collection: Thinking
People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.Collection: Thinking
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.Collection: Birthday
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.Collection: Hate
In a weak moment, I have written a book.Collection: Book
Hardships make or break people.Collection: Being Strong
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 don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.Collection: Tired
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.Collection: Writing
All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?Collection: War
That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!Collection: Unforgivable Sin
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.Collection: World
men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters themCollection: Believe
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 but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.Collection: War
She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.Collection: Air
Ser eyes met his, hers naked with pleading, his remote as mountain lakes under gray skies. She saw in them defeat of her wild dream, her mad desires.Collection: Dream
Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.Collection: Heart
Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -PrissyCollection: Baby
Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.Collection: Baby
How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!Collection: Liars
Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.Collection: Rhett Butler
Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.Collection: Girl
So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.” “I hope not. It’s a girl.Collection: Girl
You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.Collection: Horse
Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents' generation and from your children's generation too. They'll never understand you and they'll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: 'Theres a chip off the old block,' and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: 'What an old rip Grandma must have been!' and they'll try to be like you.Collection: Children
what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?Collection: Boys
These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.Collection: Rome
Crackers are short on sparkle.Collection: Sparkle
Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?Collection: Book