“After all, tomorrow is another day.”
— Margaret Mitchell
“Hardships make or break people.”
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
“I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.”
“My dear, I don’t give a damn.”
“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.”
“As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.”
“I’ve always had a weakness for lost causes once they’re really lost.”
“Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.”
“The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.”
“I only know that I love you. That’s your misfortune.”
“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.”
“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
“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.”
“I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.”
“It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”
“I will think about that tomorrow!”
“Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.”
“I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn’t something left in life of charm and grace.”
“How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!”
“You’re so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”
“If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying.”
“The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.”
“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”
“Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.”
“The happiest days are when babies come.”
“Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.”
“Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.”
“I won’t think of it now. I can’t stand it now. I’ll think of it later.”
“I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There ain’t nothing from the outside can lick any of us.”
“The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain.”
“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.”
“I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.”
“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.”
“Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.”
“Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.”
“I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.”
“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.”
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