421 Quotes by Margaret Mitchell

He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

My dear, I don't give a damn.

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.

And if we folks have a motto, it’s this: ‘Don’t holler — smile and bide your time.’ We’ve survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we’ve gotten to be experts at surviving.

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

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.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.