"Frankly, I don't give a damn.

-Rhett Butler"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

""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." "
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect."
— 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 (Gone With The Wind)

"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

"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
- Rhett Butler"
— Margaret Mitchell

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

"Until you've lost your reputation, you'll never realize what a burden it was."
— 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 (Gone With The Wind)

"I Can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

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

""Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"In a weak moment, I have written a book."
— Margaret Mitchell

"Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"“The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".....Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind."
— 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 (Gone With The Wind)

"I won't think about it now.  I'll think about it tomorrow.  Tomorrow is another day."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"As she chattered and laughed and cast quick glances into the house and the yard, her eyes fell on a stranger, standing alone in the hall, staring at her in a cool impertinent way that brought her up sharply with a mingled feeling of feminine pleasure that she had attracted a man and an embarrassed sensation that her dress was too low in the bosom. He looked quite old, at least thirty-five. He was a tall man and powerfully built. Scarlett thought she had never seen such a man with such wide shoulders, so heavy with muscles, almost too heavy for gentility. When her eye caught his, he smiled, showing animal-white teeth below a close-clipped black mustache. He was dark of face, swarthy as a pirate, and his eyes were as bold and black as any pirate's appraising a galleon to be scuttled or a maiden to be ravished. There was a cool recklessness in his face and a cynical humor in his mouth as he smiled at her, and Scarlett caught her breath. She felt that she should be insulted by such a look as was annoyed with herself because she did not feel insulted. She did not know who he could be, but there was undeniably a look of good blood in his dark face. It showed in the thin hawk nose over the full red lips, and high forehead and the wide-set eyes."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"Scarlet O'Hara was not beautiful but men failed to realize it.
"
— Margaret Mitchell

""Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

"An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.""
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"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 (Gone With The Wind)

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""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." "
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind) "
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

""Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.'"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"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 (Gone With The Wind)

"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

"Scarlett, I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken...I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over...I couldn't live with you and lie to you and I certainly couldn't lie to myself. I can't even lie to you now. I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't." He drew a short breath and said lightly but softly: "My dear, I don't give a damn."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"Frankly Scarlett, I don't give a damn. ~Rhett Butler"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"'I'll think of it all 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 (Gone With The Wind)

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

"Burdens are for shoulders that are strong enough to carry them."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

""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 (Gone with the Wind)

"'What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.'"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"I will think about that tomorrow. After all tomorrow is another day!"
— Margaret Mitchell

"Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything. (Chapter 2)"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind)

"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." said by Rhett Butler, Part Three; Chapter 23"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"g“Nothing but the sight of blood upon his dark face would ease the pain in her heart. She lunged for him, swift as a cat, but with a light startled movement, he sidestepped, throwing up his arm to ward her off. She was standing on the edge of the freshly waxed top step, and as her arm with the whole weight of her body behind it, struck his out-thrust arm, she lost her balance. She made a wild clutch for the newel post and missed it. She went down the stairs backwards, feeling a sickening dart of pain in her ribs as she landed. And, too dazed to catch herself she rolled over and over to the bottom of the flight.”

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- Margaret Mitchell

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— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"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 (Gone With The Wind)

"Tomorrow's another day."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind)

"'Sir,' she said, 'you are no gentleman!'
'An apt observation,' he answered airily. 'And you, Miss, are no lady.' He seemed to find her very amusing, for he laughed softly again."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"Scarlet O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin-that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"There aren't too many laughs in Gone with the Wind but this always makes me laugh. All the women are gathered in Melanie's house after Scarlett has been assaulted on the way home from the lumber mill. The character, Archie, is chewing tobacco and spits into the fire making them all jump. India cries "Need you expectorate so loudly?" Aunt Pitty says "I was always so glad dear Papa didn't chew." "
— Margaret Mitchell

"Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that Tara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dyin' for, because it's the only thing that lasts."
— Margaret Mitchell

"'I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.'

Chapter 25

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— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. "
— Margaret Mitchell

"I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

"Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate."
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind)

""I'll worry about that tomorrow"
(Scarlett had the right idea)"
— Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind/Scarlett/Boxed Set)

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Frankly My Dear, I Don't Give A Damn
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— Margaret Mitchell