Margaret Mitchell Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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

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.

I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler)

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

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.

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

Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to find
that their wives do have sense?"
"Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

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.

What’s 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 live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

There’s just as much money to be made in the wreck of a civilization as in the upbuilding of one.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

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

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes.

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.

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

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

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.