When a Southerner took the trouble to pack a trunk and travel twenty miles for a visit, the visit was seldom of shorter duration than a month, usually much longer.

- Narrator, (from Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell)

Let’s not be too hot headed and let’s don’t have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

- Ashley Wilkes, (from Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell)

‘Curb them but don’t break their spirits,’ was Mrs. Tarleton’s motto.

- Beatrice Tarleton, (from Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell)

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

- Scarlett O’Hara, (from Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell)

When Ellen intervened with Heaven, Scarlett felt certain that Heaven heard.

- Scarlett O’Hara, (from Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell)
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She had never had a girl friend, and she never felt any lack on that account. To her, all women, including her two sisters, were natural enemies in pursuit of the same prey - man.

- Scarlett O’Hara, (from Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell)

Ellen’s life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman’s lot. It was a man’s world, and she accepted it as such.

- Ellen (Robillard) O’Hara, (from Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell)
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Now, none of your pouts, Miss. It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.

- Gerald O’Hara, (from Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell)
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And I’m not denying that when he [Ashley WIlkes] sets out to drink he can put even the Tarletons under the table. He can do all those things, but his heart’s not in it. That’s why I say he’s queer.

- Gerald O’Hara, (from Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell)
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No wife has ever changed a husband one whit, and don’t you be forgetting that.

- Gerald O’Hara, (from Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell)