The Best Scarlett ‘Hara quotes

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. — Margaret Mitchell

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

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. — Margaret Mitchell

I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it. — Margaret Mitchell

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. — Margaret Mitchell

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.’ ‘Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness. — Margaret Mitchell

I’ve found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don’t ever intend to be without it again. I’ll never be hungry again. — Margaret Mitchell

He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O’Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother’s velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster. — Margaret Mitchell

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. — Margaret Mitchell

I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can’t… My dear, I don’t give a damn. — Margaret Mitchell

In a weak moment, I have written a book. — Margaret Mitchell

You’re so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip. — Margaret Mitchell

Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness. — Margaret Mitchell

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it’s be brave or else be killed. — Margaret Mitchell

I only know that I love you. That’s your misfortune. — Margaret Mitchell

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. — Margaret Mitchell

You can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.’ ‘My pet, I’ve been to the Devil and he’s a very dull fellow. I won’t go there again, not even for you. — Margaret Mitchell

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face. — Margaret Mitchell

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

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

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

Hush,’ he said. ‘I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down? — Margaret Mitchell

I’m riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don’t forget that I’m riding with curb and spurs just the same. — Margaret Mitchell

But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out? — Margaret Mitchell

Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man.–Rhett Butler — Margaret Mitchell

There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do.. — Margaret Mitchell

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. — Margaret Mitchell