Margaret Mitchell Quotes - Page 4

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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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• Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Fighting, Want, Pleasure

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.152, Hamilton Books

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• She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

  Margaret Mitchell

  Dream, Reality, Faces

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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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• It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over twenty-five thousand copies and it is surprising how many people's feelings are hurt, how many screwballs think their brain children have been stolen, and how many people feel that they have been portrayed in a manner calculated to bring infamy upon them.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Hurt, Children, Book

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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 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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• 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

  Trying, Gloss, Brutal

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.391, 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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• You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Romantic, Best Love, Kissing

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.195, Hamilton Books

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• Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Men, Want, Butlers

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.156, Hamilton Books

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• God help the man who ever really loves you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love You, Men, Wind

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.544, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  Military, Hero, Fighting

  1936 Ashley Wilkes. Gone with the Wind, ch.31.

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• I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Movie, Great Year, Wind

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Mercy, Worn, Fine

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.155, Hamilton Books

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• Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Animal, Difficult, Humans

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.354, Hamilton Books

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• You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Daughter, Thinking

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.37, Hamilton Books

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• Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sunset, Southern, Causes

  1936 Rhett Butler. Gone with the Wind, ch.34.

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• 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

  Money, Civilization, People

  Gone with theWind pt. 2, ch. 9 (1936)

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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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• 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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