Rhett Butler's People Quotes

“More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“I'm afraid, Belle, that being a lady is more than proper clothes. It is an attitude. From your...experience, you may know more of business and politics than ladies are supposed to know. Gentlemen are pleased to think ladies are ornamental, and it is an ill-advised ornament who contradicts her gentleman.”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“You see, sister, little Miss Scarlett has no idea who she is. Her chraming tricks attract men who are unworthy of her. "Rhett's voice dropped to a whisper. "Hindoos believe we have had lives before this. Is it true? He raised a mocking eyebrow. Perhaps Scarlett and I were star-crossed lovers; perhaps we died in each other's arms...”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“He said, 'Life has hurt us again.'
A worse hurt than those hurts we have already endured?'
No,' he said, 'I suppose not.”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“Rosemary, in his heart your brother is a lover. The shrewd businessman, the adventurer, the dandy are but costumes the lover wears. ”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“He'd sit and listen to Nana's Jesus stories all day, but when she turned to the Old Testament prophets, Louis Valentine's little face would darken. He said, "I hate it when God is mean!”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“Do you believe your gentle birth will turn a bullet?"
"Why, yes," Rhett said solemnly. "Hell yes! Gentle birth's got to be good for something!”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“Patriotic'? Dear, dear me!" Scarlett covered her mouth in mock astonishment. "I didn't know that was 'patriotism.' I believe what you intended has ruder names, though no well-bred Georgia lady would admit to knowing them.”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“Frederick Ward thought novels immoral and had been known to leave the room rather than subject himself to "bohemian" opinions.”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“Gardeners impose human values on disorderly nature, knowing full well that nature must win in the end. Gardening is gentle gallantry. - Rosemary Butler”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“Sometimes those who are easiest to love are hardest to respect. - Ashley Wilkes”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“I never saw a sky so blue. Rhett, it's worth living a man's whole life, if, just once, just one time, he gets to see a sky that blue.”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“Lurid tales are the South’s principal export. - Rhett Butler”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People

“Press. And especially my beloved Anne, whose courage never flagged.”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People: The Authorized Novel based on Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

“We do not choose whom we love; love chooses us.”
― Donald McCaig, Rhett Butler's People