Gone with the Wind Quotes

“You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.”

“Perhaps--I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.”

“Dear Scarlett! You aren’t helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.”

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.”

“I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.”

“Really, Scarlett, I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands. ”

“Sir,” she said, “you are no gentleman!” “An apt observation,” he answered airily. “And, you, Miss, are no lady.”

“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.”

“Hardships make or break people.”

“I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.”

“Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back.”

“And apologies, once postponed, became 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.”

“Scarlett, the mere fact that you’ve made a success of your mill is an insult to every man who hasn’t succeeded.”

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”

“Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”

“My dear, I don’t give a damn.”

“[I]t was better to know the worst than to wonder.”

“If I said I was madly in love with you, I’d be lying and what’s more, you’d know it.”

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

“It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!”

“You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.”

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

“She hasn’t your strength. She’s never had any strength. She’s never had anything but heart.”

“Never pass up new experiences, Scarlett. They enrich the mind.”