Top 350 Margaret Mitchell Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “After all, tomorrow is another day.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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2. “Hardships make or break people.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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3. “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

— Margaret Mitchell

4. “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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5. “I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.”

— Margaret Mitchell

6. “My dear, I don’t give a damn.”

— Margaret Mitchell

7. “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

8. “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.”

— Margaret Mitchell

9. “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

10. “Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.”

— Margaret Mitchell

11. “I will think about that tomorrow!”

— Margaret Mitchell

12. “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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13. “I’ve always had a weakness for lost causes once they’re really lost.”

— Margaret Mitchell

14. “Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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15. “I’m tired of saying, “How wonderful you are!” to fool men who haven’t got one-half the sense I’ve got, and I’m tired of pretending I don’t know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they’re doing it.”

— Margaret Mitchell

16. “I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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17. “Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.”

— Margaret Mitchell

18. “The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.”

— Margaret Mitchell

19. “Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.”

— Margaret Mitchell

20. “I only know that I love you. That’s your misfortune.”

— Margaret Mitchell

21. “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

22. “The happiest days are when babies come.”

— Margaret Mitchell

23. “That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”

— Margaret Mitchell

24. “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

25. “It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”

— Margaret Mitchell

26. “I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn’t something left in life of charm and grace.”

— Margaret Mitchell

27. “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

28. “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

29. “Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.”

— Margaret Mitchell

30. “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

31. “Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.”

— Margaret Mitchell

32. “Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.”

— Margaret Mitchell

33. “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

34. “Tommorrow is another day.”

— Margaret Mitchell

35. “My! How the grapes are sour today!” -Rhett Butler.”

— Margaret Mitchell

36. “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

37. “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

38. “Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.”

— Margaret Mitchell

39. “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

40. “How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!”

— Margaret Mitchell

41. “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

42. “Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.”

— Margaret Mitchell

43. “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

44. “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

45. “If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying.”

— Margaret Mitchell

46. “I won’t think of it now. I can’t stand it now. I’ll think of it later.”

— Margaret Mitchell

47. “Mistress! What would I get out of that except a passel of brats?” -Scarlett O’Hara.”

— Margaret Mitchell

48. “If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything...”

— Margaret Mitchell

49. “Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.”

— Margaret Mitchell

50. “Crackers are short on sparkle.”

— Margaret Mitchell