421 Quotes by Margaret Mitchell

It was one thing to know that Ashley was engaged but it was another to hear people talk about it so casually.

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

Then he had thought it all beyond her mental grasp and it had been pleasant to explain things to her. Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

That was a neat way of smoothing a man’s vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it as though such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven’t are winnowed out.

I want you more than I have ever wanted any woman – and I’ve waited longer for you than I’ve ever waited for any woman.

Better to be tormented with memories of Ashley than Charleston accents.

The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile.