"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." |
-Rhett Butler |
"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were." |
-Margaret Mitchell |
"Do you stand there, Scarlett O'Hara, and tell me that Tara - that land - doesn't amount to anything?...Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts, and don't you be forgetting it! 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for." |
-Gerald O'Hara |
"Ef you doan care 'bout how folks talks 'bout dis fambly, Ah does...Ah ain' gwine stand by an' have eve'ybody at de pahty sayin' how you ain' fotched up right. Ah has tole you an' tole you dat you kin allus tell a lady by dat she eat lak a bird. An' Ah ain' aimin' ter have you go ter Mist' Wilkes' an' eat lak a fe'el hand an' gobble lak a hawg." |
-Mammy |
"Whut gempmums says an' whut dey thinks is two diffunt things. An' Ah ain' noticed Mist' Ashley axting fer ter mahy you." |
-Mammy |
"He look as if - as if he knew what I looked like without my shimmy." |
-Scarlett O'Hara |
"There's one thing I do know, and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike - bad lots both of us, selfish and shrewd, but able to look things in the eyes and call them by their right names...I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman. I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman." |
-Rhett Butler |
"Here's a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett, wants to feel your arms arond him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me. You're a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett, kiss me. Kiss me, once." |
-Rhett Butler |
"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 folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." |
-Scarlett O'Hara |
"Yes, there is something. Something you love better than me, though you may not know it - Tara." |
-Ashley Wilkes |
"Look after him for me, just as you looked after me for him. Look after him, but never let him know. Promise?..." |
-Melanie Hamilton Wilkes |
"Captain Butler, be kind to him...He loves you so." |
-Melanie Hamilton Wilkes |
"I like to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her and spoil her - as I wanted to spoil you." |
-Rhett Butler |
"It's from this you get your strength, the red earth of Tara." |
-Rhett Butler |
"Tara! Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day." |
-Scarlett O'Hara |
