Margaret Mitchell’s novel ‘Gone with the Wind’ was first published in 1936.
It is a great romantic novel about the American Civil War told from the perspective of the Confederacy.
We have curated the most popular quotes from Gone With The Wind novel.
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Gone with the Wind Quotes by Margaret Mitchell
“I’ve always had a weakness for lost causes once they’re really lost.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“After all, tomorrow is another day!” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“I’m riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don’t forget that I’m riding with curb and spurs just the same.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.” ~ Margaret Mitchell.
“She hasn’t your strength. She’s never had any strength. She’s never had anything but heart.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
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Quotes from Gone with the Wind
“Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Sir,”she said,”you are no gentleman!”
An apt observation,”he answered airily.”And, you, Miss, are no lady.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“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” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
Famous Gone with the Wind Quotes
“If he’s forgotten me, I’ll make him remember me. I’ll make him want me again.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“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.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Hush,” he said. “I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn’t make them. Stupid people made them.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Hardships make or break people.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“It was better to know the worst than to wonder.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“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.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
Popular Gone with the Wind Quotes
“You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.” ~ Margret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind.
“I’m tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“My dear, I don’t give a damn.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
Inspiring Gone with the Wind Quotes
“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.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“God help the man who ever really loves you.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“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.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“I’ll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Well fiddle dee dee!” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“All really nice girls wonder when men don’t try to kiss them. They know they shouldn’t want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can’t… My dear, I don’t give a damn.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
Best Gone with the Wind Quotes
“It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“I only know that I love you. That’s your misfortune.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“Perhaps – I want the old days back again and they’ll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“You’re so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
“I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.” ~ Margaret Mitchell (quote from Gone with the Wind).
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