— Please, don't go! You can't leave, please. I'll never forgive you!
— I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never forgive myself. If a bullet gets me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. Thereis one thing I do know, and that is I love you, Scarlett. Inspite of you and meand the world going to pieces, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd, but able to look things in the eye and call them by name.
Explanation:
Rhett and Scarlett watch the Confederate forces retreat.
The skies rained Death... For thirty-five days a battered Atlanta hung grimly on, hoping for a miracle... Then there fell a silence... more terrifying than the pounding of the cannon...
— You must stay here!
— Without a chaperon? It simply isn't good..
— Heavens, this is war, not a garden party!
When the war is over! When it’s over...
— Caroline Meade, how can you let your husband conduct this slave auction!
— How dare you criticize me! melanie told the doctor that if it's for the Cause, it's quite all right.
— She did?
— Where are my smelling saults? I think I shall faint.
— Don't you dare faint, Pittypat! If Melanie says it's all right, it is all right.
Explanation:
At a charity evening in favor of the soldiers of the Confederacy, for the sake of fundraising, Dr. Meade announced that gentlemen can buy a dance my lady.
Look at them, all these poor tragic people. The South sinking to its knees. It'll never rise again. "The Cause!" The cause of living in the past is dying right in front of us.
— And another thing, those pantalets! I don't know a woman in Paris who wears pantalets anymore.
— What do they... You shouldn't talk about such things!
— You don't mind my knowing about them, just my talking about them.
Oh, dear! My stays are so tight, I'll never ger through the day without belching!
— Ashley told me he likes girls with a healthy appetite.
— What gentlemens says and thinks is different things. And I ain't noticed Mr. Ashley asking for to marry you.
— How do I look?
— Awful! This war is stopped being a joke when a girl doesn't know the latest fashion.
— I don't know why I let you come and see me!
— Because I'm the only one man over 16 and under 60 who's around to show you a good time.
There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton fields called the Old South...
Here in this pretty world Gallantry took it's last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Khights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave...
Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered.
A Civilization gone with the wind...
— What can I say to make you understand? I've told you how sorry I am..
— My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, 'I'm sorry,' all the errors and hurts of years past can be remedied.
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