Top 350 Margaret Mitchell Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Just think, Scarlett, a half-million dollars, if you’d only restrained your fiery nature and not rushed into wedlock again!”

— Margaret Mitchell

302. “What I want I take if I can get it, and so I wrestle neither with angels nor devils.”

— Margaret Mitchell

303. “El mundo puede perdonarlo todo, excepto a la gente que se soluciona sola sus asuntos.”

— Margaret Mitchell

304. “For a woman, love comes after marriage.”

— Margaret Mitchell

305. “The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about him, and then gradually lead the conversation around to yourself-and keep it there. Scarlett would have felt some cause for alarm if Melanie had been saying: “How wonderful you are!!” or “How do you ever think of such things? My little ole brain would bust if I even tried to think about them!” But here she was, with a man at her feet, talking as seriously as if she were in church.”

— Margaret Mitchell

306. “Afternoon naps were a custom of the country and never were they so necessary as on the all-day parties, beginning early in the morning and culminating in a ball.”

— Margaret Mitchell

307. “You want me to say it? All right, I’ll say it. I love you.” He.”

— Margaret Mitchell

308. “Nothing but my devotion to you would make me, at this stage of my career, turn horse thief – and thief of such a horse. Let me help you in.”

— Margaret Mitchell

309. “Indeed!” he said coolly. “Well, who’s the happy father? Ashley?”

— Margaret Mitchell

310. “Then – then you mean I’ve ruined it all – that you don’t love me any more?” “That’s right.”

— Margaret Mitchell

311. “These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable as furies to any renegade who broke one small law of their unwritten code. This code was simple. Reverence for the Confederacy, honor to the veterans, loyalty to old forms, pride in poverty, open hands to friends and undying hatred to Yankees. Between them, Scarlett and Rhett had outraged every tenet of this code.”

— Margaret Mitchell

312. “When such thoughts came she did not pray hastily to God, telling Him she did not mean it. God did not frighten her any more.”

— Margaret Mitchell

313. “Pretty young Mrs. Hamilton, with her dimple and her jingling earbobs and her helpless little ways, blowing a man’s face to a pulp and then burying him in a hastily scratched-out hole!”

— Margaret Mitchell

314. “Then above the confused sounds Stuart Tarleton’s voice rose, in an exultant shout, ‘Yee-aay-ee!’ as if he were on the hunting field. And she heard for the first time, without knowing it, the Rebel yell.”

— Margaret Mitchell

315. “We should have paid heed to cynics like Butler who knew, instead of statesmen who felt – and talked.”

— Margaret Mitchell

316. “I’ve never bothered about what people said.”

— Margaret Mitchell

317. “Marriage was bad enough, but to be widowed-oh, then life was over forever!”

— Margaret Mitchell

318. “With a heart that was heavy and a little bitter, she said: “You’ve been such a fool, Ashley. Why couldn’t you see that she was worth a million of me?”

— Margaret Mitchell

319. “Be a little man, Wade, and stop crying or I will come over there and slap you.”

— Margaret Mitchell

320. “She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself...”

— Margaret Mitchell

321. “Well, they get results, don’t they?”

— Margaret Mitchell

322. “She’d make them sorry. She’d show them. She didn’t quite see how she’d show them, but she’d do it all the same. She’d hurt them worse than they hurt her.”

— Margaret Mitchell

323. “Since eight o’clock she had been trying on and rejecting dresses, and now she stood dejected and irritable in lace pantalets, linen corset cover and three billowing lace and linen petticoats. Discarded garments lay about her on the floor, the bed, the chairs, in bright heaps of color and straying ribbons. The rose organdie with long pink sash was becoming, but she had worn it last summer when Melanie visited Twelve Oaks and she’d be sure to remember it. And might be catty enough to mention it.”

— Margaret Mitchell

324. “But Gerald has known poverty, and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or good grace.”

— Margaret Mitchell

325. “They were convalescing slowly and lay scrawny and weak in their bed. While they had been unconscious, the world had changed. The Yankees had come, the darkies had gone and Mother had died.”

— Margaret Mitchell

326. “The Cause they had thought could never fall had fallen forever.”

— Margaret Mitchell

327. “She felt little affection for the child, hide the fact though she might.”

— Margaret Mitchell

328. “There was an exciting atmosphere about the place that uplifted her. It was as if she could actually feel the accelerated steady pulse of the town’s heart beating in time with her own.”

— Margaret Mitchell

329. “She whispered “Yes” before she even thought.”

— Margaret Mitchell

330. “Ashley wrote me that we should not be fighting the Yankees. And that we have been betrayed into it by statesmen and orators mouthing catchwords and prejudices,” said Melly rapidly. “He said nothing in the world was worth what this war was going to do to us. He said there wasn’t anything at all to glory – it was just misery and dirt.”

— Margaret Mitchell

331. “Child, it’s a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen.”

— Margaret Mitchell

332. “For all his exasperating qualities, she grew to look forward to his calls. There was something exciting about him that she could not analyze, something different from any man she had ever known. There was something breathtaking in the grace of his big body which made his very entrance into a room like an abrupt physical impact, something in the impertinence and bland mockery of his dark eyes that challenged her spirit to subdue him.”

— Margaret Mitchell

333. “There will never again be men like them,” said Carreen softly. “No one can take their places.”

— Margaret Mitchell

334. “She could never love anything or anyone so selflessly as they did. What a lonely feeling it was – and she had never been lonely in either body or spirit before.”

— Margaret Mitchell

335. “And these children will never talk of anything else either. They’ll think it was wonderful and glorious to fight the Yankees and come home blind and crippled – or not come home at all. They all like to remember the war, to talk about it. But I don’t. I don’t even like to think about it. I’d forget it all if I could – oh, if I only could!”

— Margaret Mitchell

336. “I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.”

— Margaret Mitchell

337. “You must not say these things, Scarlett! You mustn’t. You don’t mean them. You’ll hate yourself for saying them, and you’ll hate me for hearing them!”

— Margaret Mitchell

338. “There was a look of consternation in them, of incredulity and something more – what was it? Yes, Gerald had looked that way the day his pet hunter had broken his leg and he had had to shoot him. Why did she have to think of that now? Such a silly thought. And why did Ashley look so oddly and say nothing?”

— Margaret Mitchell

339. “As usual in the very young, she marveled that people could be so selfishly oblivious to her pain and the world rock along just the same, in spite of her heartbreak.”

— Margaret Mitchell

340. “He looked so swarthy and formidable and the heavy muscles in his shoulders swelled against his white linen coat in a way that frightened her. It seemed impossible that she had seen all this strength and insolence brought low. And she had held that black head in her lap!”

— Margaret Mitchell

341. “Other lumbermen could only fume inwardly and state heatedly, in the bosoms of their families, that they wished to God Mrs. Kennedy was a man for just about five minutes. One.”

— Margaret Mitchell

342. “To her, all women, including her two sisters, were natural enemies in pursuit of the same prey – man.”

— Margaret Mitchell

343. “Scarlett knew the effort this involved both mentally and physically, for Melanie suffered torments of shyness in the presence of anything male.”

— Margaret Mitchell

344. “He was excited by the war fever and pleased that Scarlett had made so good a match, and who was he to stand in the way of young love when there was a war? Ellen, distracted, finally gave in as other mothers throughout the South were doing. Their leisured world had been turned topsy-turvy, and their pleadings, prayers and advice availed nothing against the powerful forces sweeping them along.”

— Margaret Mitchell

345. “This,” said a voice from the depths of the sofa, “is too much.”

— Margaret Mitchell

346. “I should love you, for you are charming and talented at many useless accomplishments. But many ladies have charm and accomplishments and are just as useless as you are. No, I don’t love you. But I do like you tremendously – for the elasticity of your conscience, for the selfishness which you seldom trouble to hide, and for the shrewd practicality in you which, I fear, you get from some not too remote Irish-peasant ancestor.”

— Margaret Mitchell

347. “Archie’s carrying him to the vacant lot near Belle’s. He’s dead. Shot through the head.”

— Margaret Mitchell

348. “A hard little pain had started in her heart and was traveling slowly up toward her throat where it would become a lump and the lump would soon become tears.”

— Margaret Mitchell

349. “You should have insured a place for your children in the social scheme years ago – but you didn’t. You didn’t even bother to keep what position you had. And it’s too much to hope that you’ll mend your ways at this late date. You’re too anxious to make money and too fond of bullying people.”

— Margaret Mitchell

350. “Then why is your mouth all pursed up in that ridiculous way?”

— Margaret Mitchell