Top 183 quotes by Margaret Mitchell

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

Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.673, Hamilton Books

Wind , Crisis , Butlers

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

Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1, Hamilton Books

Men , Beauty , Beautiful

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

Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1, Hamilton Books

Men , Beauty , Beautiful

I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.
Margaret Mitchell

Silly , Love You , Selfish

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
Margaret Mitchell

Sorry , Wind , Jail

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
Margaret Mitchell

Sorry , Wind , Jail

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.
Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.541, Hamilton Books

Night , Play , Guitar

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

Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.80, Hamilton Books

Heart , Hate , Anger

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 Butler
Margaret Mitchell

Helping , Yankees , Selfish

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

Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.290, Hamilton Books

Rhett Butler

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.
Margaret Mitchell

Fighting , Strong , Wind

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.
Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1445, Simon and Schuster

Love , Positive , Break Up

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.
Margaret Mitchell

Two , Problem , Hope

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
Margaret Mitchell

1936 Rhett Butler. Gone with the Wind, ch.9.

Reputation , Realizing , Lost Love

But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.
Margaret Mitchell

Dark , Please Me , Expecting Something In Return