Rhett Butler – Character Quotes

Influence is everything, and guilt or innocence merely an academic question.

When you are trying to get something out of a man, don't blurt it out as you did to me. Do try to be more subtle, more seductive. It gets better results.

"Do I mean so much to you?"
"Well, yes. You see, I've invested a good deal of money in you, and I'd hate to lose it."

My pet, I've been to the devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, even for you...

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

Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life, waiting to catch you between husbands.

Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin goldfish bowls filled to the brim with the clearest green water and that when the fish swim to the top, as they are doing now, you are devilishly charming?

In fact, I'm ill bred enough to be proud of having a smart wife.

I thought: Miss O’Hara is a girl of rare spirit. She knows what she wants and she doesn’t mind speaking her mind—or throwing vases.

“Go on! Go on now! I want you to hurry. I don’t want to ever see you again. I hope a cannon ball lands right on you. I hope it blows you to a million pieces. I..”
“Never mind the rest. I follow your general idea."

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

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.

I pity him because he ought to be dead and he isn't. And I have a contempt for him because he doesn't know what to do with himself now that his world is gone.

There is a certain swinish comfort in being with a woman who loves you utterly and respects you for being a fine gentleman--even if she is an illiterate whore.

"Rhett, you are so nice."
"Thanks for the crumbs from your table, Mrs. Dives."

Most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.