421 Quotes by Margaret Mitchell

You have all the passion for life I lack.

Let’s don’t be too hot headed and let’s don’t have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

In the excitement of trying on dresses she had forgotten Mammy’s ironclad rule that, before going to any party, the O’Hara girls must be crammed so full of food at home they would be unable to eat any refreshments at the party.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started ward didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money.

Mistress! What would I get out of that except a passel of brats?” -Scarlett O’Hara.

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, “The dogs bark but the caravan passes on”? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

I’ve got something that most pretty ladies haven’t got – and that’s a mind that’s made up.

All really nice girls wonder when men don’t try to kiss them. They know they shouldn’t want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.

You can’t make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I’m a rascal, and why not? It’s a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It’s only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.