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.

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

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

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".....Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind.

Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.

I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn.

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

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

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

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

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.