1. “Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.” -Scarlett O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
2. “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” -Margaret Mitchell, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
3. “I am afraid of facing life without the slow beauty of our old world that is gone.” -Margaret Mitchell,‘Gone With the Wind’.
4. “I’ll go home. And I’ll think of some way to get him back.” -Scarlett O’Hara,‘Gone With the Wind’.
5. “Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.” -Margaret Mitchell,‘Gone With the Wind’.
6. “The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it’s the only thing that lasts” -Gerald O’Hara,‘Gone With the Wind’.
7. “The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor” -Margaret Mitchell,‘Gone With the Wind’.
8. “How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!” -Margaret Mitchell,‘Gone With the Wind’.
9. “The soft green grasses where she had sat were cut to bits by heavy cannon wheels.” –Margaret Mitchell,‘Gone With the Wind’.
10. “It will come to you, this love of the land. There’s no gettin’ away from it if you’re Irish.” -Gerald O’Hara,‘Gone With the Wind’.
11. “I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.” -Scarlett O’Hara,‘Gone With the Wind’.
12. “That’s Rhett Butler. He’s from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.” -Cathleen Calvert,‘Gone With the Wind’.
13. “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is.” -Ashley Wilkes, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
14. “And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.” -Scarlett O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
15. “To her mind there were few, if any, qualities that outweighed gumption.” -Margaret Mitchell, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
16. “Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.” -Margaret Mitchell, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
17. “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.” -Margaret Mitchell, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
18. “SCARLETT O’HARA WAS not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.” -Margaret Mitchell, first line of ‘Gone With The Wind’.
19. “I’ll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.” -Scarlett O’Hara, final lines of ‘Gone With The Wind’.
20. “I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.” -Scarlett O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
21. “And you, miss, are no lady. Don’t think I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any charm for me.” -Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
22. “You’re so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.” -Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
23. “Tara! Home. I’ll go home. And I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all… tomorrow is another day.” -Scarlet O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
24. “So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands. ”-Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
25. “There’s one thing I do know… and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we’re alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.” -Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
26. “War, war, war. This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn’t going to be any war.” -Scarlett O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
27. “I can shoot straight, if I don’t have to shoot too far.” -Scarlett O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
28. “Oh Ashley, Ashley, I love you.” -Scarlett O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
29. “I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.” -Scarlett O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
30. “Oh, no, you ain’t. If you don’t care what folks says about this family, I does. And I done told you and told you, you can always tell a lady by the way she eats in front of people – like a bird.” -Mammy, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
31. “Now isn’t this better than sitting at a table? A girl hasn’t got but two sides to her at the table.”-Scarlett O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
32. “Ooh, if I just wasn’t a lady, what wouldn’t I tell that varmint.” -Scarlett O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
33. “It ain’t fittin’… it ain’t fittin’. It jes’ ain’t fittin’… It ain’t fittin.” -Scarlett O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
34. “Mrs. Hamilton is in mourning, Captain Butler. But I’m sure any of our Atlanta belles would be proud to…” -Dr Meade, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
35. “Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men you mean.” -Scarlett O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
36. “Oh, Miss Scarlett, I don’t know nothing ’bout birthin’ babies! I don’t know how I could’ve told such a lie!” -Prissy, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
37. “You’d rather live with that silly little fool who can’t open her mouth except to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and raise a passel of mealy-mouthed brats just like her.” -Scarlett O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
38.“Great balls of fire. Don’t bother me anymore, and don’t call me sugar.” -Scarlett O’Hara, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
39. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” -Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
40. “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.” -Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
41. “I’ve loved you more than I’ve ever loved any woman and I’ve waited for you longer than I’ve waited for any woman.” -Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
42. “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.” -Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
43. “A cat’s a better mother than you.” -Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
44. “You still think you’re the cutest trick in shoe leather.” -Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
45. “Take a good look my dear. It’s an historic moment you can tell your grandchildren about – how you watched the Old South fall one night.” -Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
46. “My darling, you’re such a child. You think that by saying, ‘I’m sorry,’ all the past can be corrected.” -Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
47. “No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” –Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
48. “I’m very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening’s over.”-Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
49. “Now that you’ve got your lumber mill and Frank’s money, you won’t come to me as you did to the jail, so I see I shall have to marry you.” –Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
50. “No, my dear, I’m not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I’d ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You’d break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn’t even trouble to sheathe her claws.” -Rhett Butler, ‘Gone With the Wind’.
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