37 Quotes About Gone-with-the-wind

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

Gone with the Wind, a self-help manual that dealt with the subject of how best to cope with Yankees when they venture south.

It was unreal, grotesquely unreal, that morning skies which dawned so tenderly blue could be profaned with cannon smoke that hung over the town like low thunder clouds, that warm noontides filled with the piercing sweetness of massed honeysuckle and climbing roses could be so fearful, as shells screamed into the streets, bursting like the crack of doom, throwing iron splinters hundreds of yards, blowing people and animals to bits.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.

Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

I only know that I love you.That's your misfortune.

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind...

Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.