Margaret Mitchell Quotes

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

11. “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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

19. “I will think about that tomorrow!”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

23. “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

24. “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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

27. “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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

30. “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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

32. “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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

36. “Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.”

— Margaret Mitchell

37. “I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”

— Margaret Mitchell

38. “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

39. “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

40. “But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

42. “There ain’t nothing from the outside can lick any of us.”

— Margaret Mitchell

43. “The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain.”

— Margaret Mitchell

44. “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

45. “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

46. “I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.”

— Margaret Mitchell

47. “My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so – if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn’t have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

49. “I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.”

— Margaret Mitchell

50. “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