I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.
I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.
I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.
I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.
She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.
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.
The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.
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.
You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.
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.
Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.
The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.
you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.
Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
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.
I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.
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.
If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.
Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?
And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.
Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.
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.
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