421 Quotes by Margaret Mitchell

Sometimes she thought that all the people she had ever known were strangers except Rhett. “Can’t.

I’m riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don’t forget that I’m riding with curb and spurs just the same.

It’s only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who become enraged when called by their right names.

My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so – if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn’t have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.

If for no other reason she hated the Yankees because they kept her from having real coffee with sugar and thick cream in it.

His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other’s eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

It’s a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn’t precisely what they expected it to be.

She smiled – it wasn’t a grin this time – but just a smile that made me feel she could see my soul and I wished to God my soul had been cleaner.

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.