Margaret Mitchell Quotes

“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.”

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

“My dear, I don’t give a damn.”

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

“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.”

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”

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

“Hardships make or break people.”

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

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

“And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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