Scarlett O'hara – Character Quotes

There are too many other things to think about—things that can be helped without my thinking of those I can’t help.

"Captain Butler, you must not hold me so tightly. Everybody is looking."
“If no one were looking, would you care?"

I mustn't bawl; I mustn't beg. I mustn't do anything to risk his contempt. He must respect me even — even if he doesn't love me.

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

“Scarlett, you do like me, don’t you?”
“Well, sometimes,” she answered cautiously.“When you aren’t acting like a varmint.”
“I think you like me because I am a varmint."

“Sir,” she said, “you are no gentleman!”
“An apt observation,” he answered airily.“And, you, Miss, are no lady.”

It was so good to have a man beside her, to lean close to him and feel the hard swell of his arm and know that he stood between her and unnamable terrors, even though he merely sat there and stared.

No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

"Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time."
"I hope not. It's a girl."

Scarlett (about her dream):"Oh, Rhett, it's awful to be hungry."
Rhett:"It must be awful to dream of starvation after a seven-course dinner including that enormous crawfish."

I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes--and not him at all.

“I don’t even intend to kiss you, either.”
“Then why is your mouth all pursed up in that ridiculous way?”

Why is it a girl has to be so silly to catch a husband?

Scarlett:"Besides, I’d just as soon kiss a pig.”
Rhett:“There’s no accounting for tastes.."

"I won’t need you to rescue me. I can take care of myself, thank you.”
“Don’t say that, Scarlett! Think of it, if you like, but never, never say it to a man."