Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too 'I do want to escape too I'm so very tired of it all... The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us.'
Quotes about scarlett (16 Quotes)
Scarlett Sir, you are no gentleman. Rhett And you, miss, are no lady.... Don't think that I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any charm for me.
Rhett Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaus. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett What do you want Rhett I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday, I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes I love you Scarlett That's something you'll never hear from me Captain Butler as long as you live.
Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times 'As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again no, nor any of my folks If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.'
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
As Rhett closes the front door behind him and leaves her, Scarlett speaks to the camera I can't let him go. I can't. There must be some way to bring him back. Oh I can't think about this now I'll go crazy if I do I'll think about it tomorrow. (She closes the door.) But I must think about it. I must think about it. What is there to do (She falls forward onto the ascending stairs.) What is there that matters.
I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.
I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
... She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.
Scarlett tells Mammy 'I'm too young to be a widow.' She weeps to her mother 'My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore.' Her mother comforts her 'It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young.'
Rhett Butler's farewell to Scarlett O'Hara, I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best....
I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.
Scarlett You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett You helpless (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.
I think all those women -- Margaret, Scarlett O'Hara, Melanie Hamilton -- were all Ya-Yas ... all those fabulous women who knew how to run society.
Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.