Margaret Mitchell quotes

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

• 21
• expectation

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.

• 9
• fight

My dear, I don't give a damn.

• 8
• common

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

• 8
• forgiveness

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

• 7
• burden

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

• 5
• reputation

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

• 5
• taxation

After all, tomorrow is another day.

• 3
• another

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.

• 2
• inspirational

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

• 2
• procrastination

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

• 2
• expect

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

• 2
• lick

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.

• 2
• assumptions

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

• 1
• courage

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

• never

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.

• anything

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.

• adopt

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.

• again

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

• people

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!

• chapter

Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.

• gone

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.

• kissing

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.

• love

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.

• land