Margaret Mitchell — Quotes from Author's Books

You still think you're the Belle of the county don't you? That you're the cutest little trick in shoe leather and that every man you meet is dying of love for you.

It hurt so terribly to cry, but not so much as not being able to cry.

Marry for convenience and love for pleasure.

"Oh, no, I couldn’t!! You mustn’t! My reputation will be ruined.”
“It’s in shreds already..."

As God is my witness, as God is my witness, the Yankees aren’t going to lick me. I’m going to live through this, and when it’s over, I’m never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill—as God is my witness, I’m never going to be hungry again.

War was not glory but dirt and misery.

I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the upbuilding of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the upbuilding, fast money in the crack-up.

Desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift.

Women had a hardness and endurance unknown to men, despite the pretty idea taught me in childhood that women are frail, tender, sensitive creatures.

He spoke as with an effort. "She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality."

I've ever been strong, it was because she was behind me.

We bow to the inevitable. We're not wheat, we're buckwheat! When a storm comes along it flattens ripe wheat because it's dry and can't bend with the wind. But ripe buckwheat's got sap in it and it bends. And when the wind has passed, it springs up almost as straight and strong as before.

I like babies and I like little children, till they begin to grow up and acquire adult habits of thought and adult abilities to lie and cheat and be dirty.

Try not to be a bigger fool than you are.

When will you stop looking for compliments in men’s lightest utterances?

Once a man had been her beau, she never lost the conviction that he belonged to her, and all his good deeds redounded to her credit.