Margaret Mitchell
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.Collection: Pet
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.Collection: Sweet
Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.Collection: Duplicity
Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett ButlerCollection: Men
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.Collection: Wind
I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.Collection: Husband
Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn’t sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.Collection: Running
So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!Collection: Grandchildren
God help the man who ever really loves you.Collection: Love You
It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it.Collection: Believe
The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.Collection: Yankees
Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.Collection: Yankees
Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.Collection: Brave
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.Collection: Europe
She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.Collection: Important
Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett ButlerCollection: Selfish
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.Collection: Missing
It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.Collection: Real
Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.Collection: Fun
You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.Collection: Romantic
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.Collection: Night
That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.Collection: Too Much
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.Collection: Heart
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.Collection: Simple
I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.Collection: Husband
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.Collection: Play
But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.Collection: Clouds
It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?Collection: Feet
I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.Collection: Thinking
I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.Collection: Tired
. . . 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 mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.Collection: Math
Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those thousands on furlough who FORGOT to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their wounds for six months but who remain at home, going about their usual business or doing the spring plowing.Collection: Spring
I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.Collection: Mercy
Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.Collection: Thinking
You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.Collection: Girl
Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.Collection: Animal
Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett ButlerCollection: New Experiences
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.Collection: Girl
Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.Collection: Different
I will think about that tomorrow!Collection: Thinking
Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear - even as you save something to love.Collection: Children
I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.Collection: Husband
Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.Collection: Night
She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast.Collection: Strong
If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.Collection: Want
A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett ButlerCollection: Baby
So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Lost
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.Collection: Beautiful