Margaret Mitchell Quotes Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Famous Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

I Can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

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
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

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.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

Voi Scarlett, sinä olet huono valehtelemaan! Niin, elämässä on nyt loistoa - eräänlaista. Siinähän vika juuri onkin. Entisissä ajoissa ei ollut loistoa, mutta niissä oli suloa, kauneutta, hiljaista taikaa.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

I will think about that tomorrow!
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

And don't think you can lay down the load, ever. Because you can't. I know.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't..My dear, I don't give a damn.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

Yankees in Georgia! How did they ever get in?
—Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind"

My dear, I don't give a damn.
—Margaret Mitchell

The history of the versions is a history of doctrine and dispute.
—Margaret Mitchell

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
—Margaret Mitchell

The-18 month period is a compromise between the feeling that two years is a little bit too long for non-contested cases and that one year seems a little bit short to reflect on matters properly.
—Margaret Mitchell

Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
—Margaret Mitchell

There are proposals where there is little or no evidence available from the executive to support the assertion that the reforms proposed will safeguard the interests of children and support stable families.
—Margaret Mitchell

After all, tomorrow is another day.
—Margaret Mitchell

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
—Margaret Mitchell

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
—Margaret Mitchell

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
—Margaret Mitchell

... 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.
—Margaret Mitchell

I just can't imagine what it's going to be like without him. We've been together a long time.
—Margaret Mitchell

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....
—Margaret Mitchell

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
—Margaret Mitchell

I'm tired of saying, 'How wonderful you are' to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.
—Margaret Mitchell

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
—Margaret Mitchell

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
—Margaret Mitchell

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 than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
—Margaret Mitchell

The house Rhett Butler built for Scarlett could have been in Omaha so little does it resemble any dwelling in the Atlanta of the Reconstruction period.
—Margaret Mitchell

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
—Margaret Mitchell

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
—Margaret Mitchell