110+ Margaret Mitchell Quotes On Education, Religion And Nature

Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist best known for her 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind. She wrote the novel over the course of ten years while working full-time as a journalist. Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 for her novel, which was later adapted into a 1939 film of the same name. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Margaret Mitchell on education, love, religion.

Top 10 Margaret Mitchell Quotes

1. Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
2. Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.
3. You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler
4. Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
5. Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.
6. Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler
7. Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
8. The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain
9. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
10. Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

Margaret Mitchell Short Quotes

• With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
• Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.
• Hardships make or break people.
• My dear, I don't give a damn.
• The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.
• How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
• Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?
• That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
• Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
• I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

Margaret Mitchell Quotes About Love

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

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. — Margaret Mitchell

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how. — Margaret Mitchell

If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it. — Margaret Mitchell

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

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything. — Margaret Mitchell

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

God help the man who ever really loves you. — Margaret Mitchell

They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews. — Margaret Mitchell

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune. — Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell Quotes About Life

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

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

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

The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own. — Margaret Mitchell

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything. — Margaret Mitchell

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands. — Margaret Mitchell

Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery. — Margaret Mitchell

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him. — Margaret Mitchell

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

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. — Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell Quotes About Realize

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

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face. — Margaret Mitchell

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

Margaret Mitchell Quotes About Fighting

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

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

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? — Margaret Mitchell

No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles. — 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

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

Margaret Mitchell Quotes About World

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

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. — Margaret Mitchell

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business. — Margaret Mitchell

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

But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation. — Margaret Mitchell

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern. — Margaret Mitchell

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. — Margaret Mitchell

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much. — Margaret Mitchell

It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it. — Margaret Mitchell

How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed! — Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell Quotes About Tomorrow

After all, tomorrow is another day. — Margaret Mitchell

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

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

I will think about that tomorrow! — Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell Famous Quotes And Sayings

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation. — 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 liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor — Margaret Mitchell

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. — Margaret Mitchell

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

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out. — Margaret Mitchell

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. — Margaret Mitchell

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. — 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

Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain. — Margaret Mitchell

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

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

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

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan. — Margaret Mitchell

Southerners can never resist a losing cause. — Margaret Mitchell

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

There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us. — Margaret Mitchell

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. — Margaret Mitchell

A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler — Margaret Mitchell

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. — Margaret Mitchell

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

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

Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion. — Margaret Mitchell

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them. — Margaret Mitchell

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

Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy — Margaret Mitchell

Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days. — Margaret Mitchell

The happiest days are when babies come. — Margaret Mitchell

You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse. — Margaret Mitchell

There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do. — Margaret Mitchell

I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public. — Margaret Mitchell

Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear - even as you save something to love. — Margaret Mitchell

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

Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them. — Margaret Mitchell

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. — Margaret Mitchell

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

She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast. — Margaret Mitchell

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

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

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant. — Margaret Mitchell

It was better to know the worst than to wonder. — Margaret Mitchell

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. — Margaret Mitchell

You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip. — Margaret Mitchell

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. — 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. Gone With The Wind — Margaret Mitchell

These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason. — Margaret Mitchell

men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them — Margaret Mitchell

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later. — Margaret Mitchell

So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs. — Margaret Mitchell

I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.' — Margaret Mitchell

I loved something I made up — Margaret Mitchell

So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy! — Margaret Mitchell

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead. — Margaret Mitchell

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same. — Margaret Mitchell

Crackers are short on sparkle. — Margaret Mitchell

Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance. — Margaret Mitchell

Life Lessons by Margaret Mitchell

1. Margaret Mitchell teaches us to be resilient and brave in the face of adversity. She faced personal tragedy and professional rejection, but kept pushing forward and eventually achieved success.
2. She also emphasizes the importance of staying true to oneself and not compromising one's values. She refused to give up her creative freedom to appease Hollywood producers, and instead chose to write the story she wanted to tell.
3. Finally, Mitchell's life and work demonstrate the power of storytelling and its ability to bring people together. Her novel, Gone with the Wind, has become a classic and continues to touch the lives of millions of readers.