Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

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

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

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.

She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.

Well fiddle dee dee!

Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business" - Rhett Butler

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.

Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.

Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.