Top 350 Margaret Mitchell Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 7 of 8

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

— Margaret Mitchell

303. “Melanie had been her sword and her shield, her comfort and her strength.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

305. “Did you ever in your novel reading come across the old situation of the disinterested wife falling in love with her own husband?” “You know I don’t read novels,” she said and, trying to equal his jesting mood, went on: “Besides, you once said it was the height of bad form for husbands and wives to love each other.” “I once said too God damn many things,” he retorted abruptly and rose to his feet.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

308. “Scarlett had thrown herself on the bed and was sobbing at the top of her voice, sobbing for her lost youth and the pleasures of youth that were denied her, sobbing with the indignation and despair of a child who once could get anything she wanted by sobbing and now knows that sobbing can no longer help her. She burrowed her head in the pillow and cried and kicked with her feet at the tufted counterpane.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

310. “I think we agreed on the occasion of our first meeting that you were no lady at all.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

312. “And now in this hour of greatest need, there was no one. It was incredible that she could be so completely alone, and frightened, and far from home.”

— Margaret Mitchell

313. “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

314. “After all, they were Yankees and no one expected anything better from Yankees. So their unthinking insults to her state, her people and their morals, glanced off and never struck deep enough to cause her more than a well-concealed sneer until an incident occurred which made her sick with rage and showed her, if she needed any showing, how wide was the gap between North and South and how utterly impossible it was to bridge it.”

— Margaret Mitchell

315. “How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them! You think the Hindu custom barbarous – but would you have had the courage to appear here tonight if the Confederacy hadn’t needed you?”

— Margaret Mitchell

316. “You’ve been with me for months,” thought Scarlett grimly, looking at her sister-in-law, “and it’s never occurred to you that it’s charity you’re living on. And I guess it never will. You’re one of those people the war didn’t change and you go right on thinking and acting just like nothing had happened – like we were still rich as Croesus and had more food than we knew what to do with and guests didn’t matter. I guess I’ve got you on my neck for the rest of my life. But I won’t have Cathleen too.”

— Margaret Mitchell

317. “This is war time. We can’t think of the proprieties now.”

— Margaret Mitchell

318. “No one seemed to realize what really possessed her, what drove her like a mad woman. It was a passion to get her affairs in order before she had to retire behind doors, to have as much money as possible in case the deluge broke upon her again, to have a stout levee of cash against the rising tide of Yankee hate. Money was the obsession dominating her mind these days. When she thought of the baby at all, it was with baffled rage at the untimeliness of it.”

— Margaret Mitchell

319. “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

320. “Right here,” answered Rhett and, picking the child up, drew him to his knee. “You are boy enough for me, son.”

— Margaret Mitchell

321. “But she felt that if Ashley succumbed to premeditated feminine tricks, she could never respect him as she now did. Any man who was fool enough to fall for a simper, a faint and an ‘oh, how wonderful you are!’ wasn’t worth having.”

— Margaret Mitchell

322. “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

323. “His one great flaw was making the terrible and exhilarating mistake of falling in love with Scarlett O’Hara.”

— Margaret Mitchell

324. “You know she said I was going to marry a gentleman with jet-black hair and a long black mustache, and I don’t like black-haired gentlemen.”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

327. “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

328. “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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

330. “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

331. “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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

334. “And you old enough to be her father!”

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

336. “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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

338. “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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell

341. “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

342. “She thought: “They both see the truth of this war, but Ashley is willing to die about it and Rhett isn’t. I think that shows Rhett’s good sense.”

— Margaret Mitchell

343. “If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?”

— Margaret Mitchell

344. “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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

346. “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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

348. “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

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

— Margaret Mitchell

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

— Margaret Mitchell