Gone with the wind Quotes.

1. "I don't want any money for it," he said. "It's a gift." Scarlett's mouth dropped open. The line was so closely, so carefully drawn where gifts from men were concerned. "Candy and flowers, dear," Ellen had said time and again, "and perhaps a book of poetry or an album or a small bottle of Florida water are the only things a lady may accept from a gentleman. Never, never any expensive gift, even from your fiance. And never any gift of jewelry or wearing apparel, not even gloves or handkerchiefs. Should you accept such gifts, men would know you were no lady and would try to take liberties."
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the wind

2. "Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville," said Rhett, his mouth twisting. "He doesn't care if they all die. The order is out. No exchanges."
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the wind

3. "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, Gone With the Wind

4. "So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time. I hope not. It’s a girl."
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

5. "Some day I’m going to do and say everything I want to do and say, and if people don’t like it I don’t care."
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

6. "There was no one to tell Scarlett that her own personality, frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she might adopt. Had she been told, she would have been pleased but unbelieving. And the civilization of which she was a part would have been unbelieving too, for at no time, before or since, had so low a premium been placed on feminine naturalness."
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

7. "You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been— He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse."
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

8. "A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise! he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler"
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

9. "Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about."
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

10. "Then he had thought it all beyond her mental grasp and it had been pleasant to explain things to her. Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain."
- Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind