Margaret Mitchell Quotes - Page 4

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• But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Dark, Expecting Something In Return, Please Me

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• I'll think of it 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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Thinking, Way, Another Day

  Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

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• It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Memories, Long, Worn

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.469, Hamilton Books

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• I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Clothes, Riding, Different

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1419, Simon and Schuster

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• It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Running, Country

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.22, Hamilton Books

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• [Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Yankees, Manners, Accents

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.214, Hamilton Books

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• His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Eye, Quiet Moments, Lost Youth

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.891, 谷月社

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• I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Tired, Men, Half

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Suing, These Days

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.359, Hamilton Books

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

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love You, Knows, Misfortunes

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• It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Feet, Phrases, Ardor

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• . . . 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

  Math, Men, Easy

  Margaret Mitchell (1975). “Gone With the Wind”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• 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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Lost, Understood, Ashley

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• To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.

  Margaret Mitchell

  House, Miracle, Breaths

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.38, 谷月社

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• What’s 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 live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sad Love, Believe, Bad Relationship

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.675, Hamilton Books

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• I will think about that tomorrow!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Thinking, Tomorrow

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• Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Beautiful, Men, Littles

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.67, Hamilton Books

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

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sweet, Faces, Strange

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.109, Hamilton Books

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• All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Running, Unforgivable Sin, Different

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• Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Loneliness, Choices, Want

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.438, Hamilton Books

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• Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Silly, Yankees, Blue

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• Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Selfish, Determined, Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.249, Hamilton Books

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• I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly 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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Selfish, Silly, Love You

  "Fictional character: Rhett". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Beautiful, Heart, Mean

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.541, Hamilton Books

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• I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Needs, Care, Need You

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