Top 350 Margaret Mitchell Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.”

— Margaret Mitchell

52. “My darling, you’re such a child. You think that by saying, “I’m sorry,” all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.”

— Margaret Mitchell

53. “People must do what they must do. We all don’t think alike or act alike and it’s wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.”

— Margaret Mitchell

54. “She hasn’t your strength. She’s never had any strength. She’s never had anything but heart.”

— Margaret Mitchell

55. “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

56. “She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.”

— Margaret Mitchell

57. “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.” -Rhett Butler.”

— Margaret Mitchell

58. “I won’t need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. – Scarlett O’Hara.”

— Margaret Mitchell

59. “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

60. “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

61. “Scarlett, always save something to fear – even as you save something to love.”

— Margaret Mitchell

62. “You’re like the thief who isn’t the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he’s going to jail. – Rhett Butler.”

— Margaret Mitchell

63. “Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.”

— Margaret Mitchell

64. “All really nice girls wonder when men don’t try to kiss them. They know they shouldn’t want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

66. “As God is my witness, as God is my witness they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again. – Scarlett.”

— Margaret Mitchell

67. “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

68. “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

69. “You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.”

— Margaret Mitchell

70. “Beloved,” she whispered, “I am coming home to you.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

73. “All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.”

— Margaret Mitchell

74. “You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.”

— Margaret Mitchell

75. “Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.”

— Margaret Mitchell

76. “Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. – Rhett Butler.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

78. “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

79. “I loved something I made up.”

— Margaret Mitchell

80. “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

81. “If he’s forgotten me, I’ll make him remember me. I’ll make him want me again.”

— Margaret Mitchell

82. “To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O’Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.”

— Margaret Mitchell

83. “In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven’t are winnowed out.”

— Margaret Mitchell

84. “The whole world can’t lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven’t got any more – and by remembering too much.”

— Margaret Mitchell

85. “Southerners can never resist a losing cause.”

— Margaret Mitchell

86. “The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.”

— Margaret Mitchell

87. “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

88. “You can’t make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I’m a rascal, and why not? It’s a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It’s only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.”

— Margaret Mitchell

89. “It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.”

— Margaret Mitchell

90. “Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days.”

— Margaret Mitchell

91. “Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.”

— Margaret Mitchell

92. “Everybody’s mainspring is different. And I want to say this – folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.”

— Margaret Mitchell

93. “All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started ward didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, 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.”

— Margaret Mitchell

94. “His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other’s eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.”

— Margaret Mitchell

95. “Give me a good horse to ride and some good licker to drink and a good girl to court and a bad girl to have fun with and anybody can have their own Europe... What do we care about missing the tour?”

— Margaret Mitchell

96. “They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.”

— Margaret Mitchell

97. “They were the eyes of a happy woman, a woman around whom storms might blow without ever ruffling the serene core of her being.”

— Margaret Mitchell

98. “They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.”

— Margaret Mitchell

99. “Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.”

— Margaret Mitchell

100. “Always providing you have enough courage – or money – you can do without a reputation.”

— Margaret Mitchell