15 quotes from Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett O'Hara and her great quotes. Let's remember “Gone with the Wind” together.

Surely you will agree that the novel by “a brave little woman” by Margaret Mitchell is the greatest literary work of the 20th century.

The life of the old South is transferred with such love to the pages of the book that once you have read it, you will no longer forget either the heroes of the novel or this era that has sunk into the abyss.
The red earth of Tara gave strength to continue to live not only to the main character, but also to many readers who returned to these pages again and again. The inimitable, cynical and businesslike Rhett Butler, the dreamy and romantic Ashley Wilkes, the strong and controversial Scarlett O'Hara will forever remain in the memory of everyone who has ever held this great novel in their hands.

Scarlett: “I’ll think about it tomorrow.”

Why do you have to make a fool of yourself to get a husband?
A gentleman always pretends to believe a lady, even if he knows that she is not telling the truth.
I discovered that money is the most important thing in the world, and God is my witness, I don’t want to live without it anymore!

Interesting facts:

The writer only allowed her husband to review the initial chapters of the novel, and it was his criticism that she listened to most. In 1937, the bestselling book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett in the film of the same name, did not get along very well on the set with her colleague who played the role of Ashley Wilkes, while Clark Gable, who played the role of Rhett, became the actress’s faithful friend.

But, Rhett, I wanted you to go to hell first!
There is so much to think about. Why bother yourself with what you can’t get back - you need to think about what else can be changed.

Rhett Butler: “Marry for convenience, love for pleasure”

This means that I am right that any virtue can be bought with money - the only question is the price.
In the end, what will happen to us, apparently, is what always happens when civilization collapses. People with intelligence and courage swim out, and those who do not have these qualities go to the bottom.
Big money can be made in two cases: when a new state is created and when it collapses. In creation this process is slower, in destruction it is faster.
No matter what slogans the speakers shout, driving fools to the slaughter, no matter how noble the goals set for them, the cause of wars is always the same. Money.

This is interesting:

Mitchell transferred the rights to the film adaptation of her bestseller for $50,000. Wow! Clark Gable was bought for the intended role from MGM for as much as $1.2 million! The creator of the novel herself wanted the role to be played by comedian Groucho Marx. Needless to say, Clark’s earnings exceeded Vivienne’s fee by almost 5 times! ($120 thousand versus $25 thousand) Mitchell did not like the final script for the film, but the director did not pay attention to her dissatisfaction. It is curious that the famous Scott Fitzgerald participated in the creation of some scenes of the film, but he was not even mentioned in the credits. The Oscar for Best Screenplay was awarded posthumously to Sidney Howard, because he died a month before the film was released. Oddly enough, Alfred Hitchcock himself was entrusted with helping to film one of the scenes of the film, but his work did not make it into the final version.

Politeness does not interfere even in grief.
There is too much nobility in her for her to believe that those she loves lack nobility. (about Melanie)
We live in a free country, and everyone has the right to be a scoundrel if he likes.
Women have such strength and endurance that men have never dreamed of - yes, I always thought so, although from childhood I was taught that women are fragile, gentle, sensual creatures.

Other quotes from the book and film

“Don’t waste time, it’s the stuff life is made of.” Inscription on the clock at Twelve Oaks
Oh, these lazy, unhurried days and quiet, warm rural twilight! Muffled female laughter in services! How golden-warm life was then, how warm the calm confidence was that tomorrow it would be the same! Is it possible to cross out all this?
And when you put your work into something, you begin to love it. Will Benteen.

This is interesting:

At the end of filming, the leading actress began to experience irritation and dissatisfaction with everything around her, while Vivien was able to win the long-awaited Oscar with the help of this role. The heroine Vivien Leigh had as many as 27 almost identical purple outfits, which differed only in the degree of wear and tear. This technique made it possible to see how Scarlett’s only dress lost its shape and strength over the years. The actress who played the mother of the main character was only 3 years older than Vivien Leigh at the time of filming. Hattie McDaniel, who played the black nanny, became the first African-American woman to win an Oscar. The funny thing is that, due to the laws that existed at that time, she couldn’t even get to the premiere.

Land is the only thing in the world that has value. Gerald O'Hara
Many of the world's disasters have resulted from wars. And then, when the war ended, no one, in essence, could really explain what it was all about. Ashley Wilkes

The film received eight Academy Awards and is considered one of the highest-grossing films in the history of American cinema. A big contribution to the popularity of the film was made by the fact that the film was in color, which undoubtedly attracted crowds of spectators. A ticket to the film premiere cost about $10, but cunning speculators managed to sell passes to the cinema for $200!

And strong in the spirit of her people, who do not accept defeat, even when it is obvious, Scarlett raised her head. She'll bring Rhett back. She knows she will return it. There is no such person whom she could not conquer if she wanted.

The last lines of the novel can restore confidence that life must go on, no matter what. We must find the strength to continue to live and fight - as the heroes of the novel did. And believe that “tomorrow will be a completely different day!”

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Best Margaret Mitchell Quotes

Quotes from the novel "Gone with the Wind"

A person cannot move forward if his soul is corroded by the pain of memories.
It is a curse when a person does not want to face reality.

Bad is the person and bad is the people who sit and shed tears just because life is not turning out the way they would like.

The earth is the only thing in the world that has value, the only thing that is eternal, and it wouldn’t hurt you to hack it on your nose! The only thing worth working for, worth fighting for... and dying for!

Life doesn't have to give us what we expect. We must take what it gives and be grateful for the fact that it is so, and not worse.

Strong people do not like witnesses to their weakness.

No one proves his truthfulness more passionately than a liar, his courage like a coward, his courtesy like a poorly behaved person, his unblemished honor like a scumbag.

Deceiving yourself is the lot of weak natures.

Human life is too expensive - nothing can pay for it.

Anyone who is not afraid to work—or steal—can make money.

For some reason, most people cannot understand that you can earn no less money from the collapse of civilization than from creating it.

You can get by very well without a good reputation, provided you have money and enough courage.

Any virtue can be bought with money—the only question is the price.

Never miss an opportunity to experience something new. It broadens your horizons.

To desire does not mean to receive. But life has not yet taught us that victory does not always go to those who go ahead.

We live in a free country, and everyone has the right to be a scoundrel if he likes.

Every person thinks differently, and everyone has the right to their opinion.

Beauty does not make a woman a lady, and a dress does not make a real lady!

She knew what she wanted and went to the goal along the shortest path - like a man, and not in roundabout, hidden ways, as is typical for women.

Film "Gone with the Wind" 1939

It’s good when a man is nearby, when you can snuggle up to him, feel the strength of his shoulder and know that between her and the silent horror creeping out of the darkness, there is him. Even if he is silent and only continuously looks ahead.

If I was ever strong, it was only because she stood behind me.

For a marriage to be happy, husband and wife must be cut from the same cloth.

They flew by quickly, these days, filled with the aroma of pine branches and a Christmas tree, in the flickering light of Christmas tree candles, in the sparkle of sparkles and tinsel - they flew by like in a dream, where every minute of life is equal to one heartbeat...

Women have such strength and endurance that men have never dreamed of - yes, I always thought so, although from childhood I was taught that women are fragile, gentle, sensual creatures.

To be different from others... is a sin that no society forgives. Dare to be different from others - and you will be anathematized!

She could drive people crazy with her antics, but that was her peculiar charm.

Above all, she learned the art of hiding a sharp and observant mind from men, masking it with an innocently simple-minded expression on her face, like a child’s.

Did it ever occur to you that I loved you as only a man can love a woman? And if you would only allow me, I would love you so tenderly, so carefully, as no man has ever loved.

If they really can’t love each other, then at least they could remain friends and she could warm her frozen, lonely heart near the spark of his friendship.

When you put off confessing for too long, it becomes more and more difficult to do, and finally there comes a point when it simply becomes impossible.

She knows what she wants and is not afraid to say it openly or...throw a vase.

A gentleman always pretends to believe a lady, even if he knows that she is not telling the truth.

I'll never look back. It hurts too much, it torments your heart too much, so then you are no longer capable of anything - you’ll keep looking back... This is what happens when you look back at the time when you were happy - nothing but pain, mental anguish and annoyance.

The past cannot be returned. The dead cannot be raised. There is no turning back, you only have to go forward.

There is so much to think about. Why bother yourself with what you can’t get back - you need to think about what else can be changed.

Now you can read about this only in books, now it is nothing more than a dream that is difficult to forget... The whole world, blown away by the wind...

What is broken will never be the same again, and it is better to remember how it looked when it was whole than to glue it back together and then see the cracks for the rest of your life.

You have some amazing ability to choose the wrong people and the wrong things.

Nothing in the whole world can cripple us, but we cripple ourselves - we sigh for what we no longer have, and think too often about the past.

The burden is made for shoulders strong enough to carry it.

You can probably paint over a leopard’s spots, but no matter how much you paint them, it will still remain a leopard.

There will always be wars because that’s how people are made. Women - no. But men need war - no less than women's love.

If those who incite wars did not declare them sacred, what fool would go to war? But no matter what slogans the orators shout, driving fools to the slaughter, no matter how noble the goals set for them, the cause of wars is always the same. Money. All wars, in essence, are fights over money. Only few people understand this. Everyone is too deafened by the fanfares, drums and speeches of the stands sitting in the rear.

The war showed me what people really are like, but did not teach me how to live with them.

Battle is like champagne: it goes to the head of cowards and heroes alike. Any fool can become brave in battle, when there is little choice: if you are not brave, you will be killed.

Strong people are called to command, and weak people are called to obey.

Influence is everything. Remember this if you are arrested. And the problem of guilt or innocence is of purely academic interest.

What a heavy burden this is - modesty and delicacy.

There are things that sound very stupid when put into words.

Don't waste your time, it's the stuff life is made of.

Hardships either trim people or break them.

If you don't do anything wrong, it's because you didn't get the chance.

I won't think about it today, I'll think about it tomorrow.

Quotes from other great women can be found here and here.

I feel sorry for her, and I don’t like people who make me feel sorry for her. Stuart Tarleton

I won't think about it now. I'll think about it tomorrow.

A real lady doesn't show off her breasts until lunchtime. Mommy

Many of the world's disasters have resulted from wars. And then, when the war ended, no one, in essence, could really explain what it all was about. Ashley Wilkes

It seems to the Zhentmuns that they need quiet, little fools who have no more appetite and brains than birds. It seems to me that not a single Zhentmoon will propose to a girl if he notices that she understands more than him about something. Mommy

He simply showed polite interest in what others were giving their hearts to. (about Ashley)

Wars are always sacred to those who have to fight them.

“You are afraid to marry me, and out of fear you married this pathetic fool, who can’t say anything except yes and no, and she gives birth to you the same pitiful, tongueless kittens as herself!” “You shouldn’t talk about Melanie like that.” - To hell with your Melanie!

“You don’t deserve to wipe the dust off his boots!” - And you will hate Ashley until your death!

I don't need you to save me. I can take care of myself, merci. Scarlett

There will always be wars because that’s how people are made. Women - no. But men need war - oh yes, no less than women's love.

— Rhett Butler

Don't waste your time, it's the stuff life is made of. Inscription on the clock at Twelve Oaks

You can earn no less from the collapse of civilization than from creating it.

— Rhett

...and the flutter of her eyelashes sealed his fate. (about Charlie Hamilton)

-Captain Butler, don’t squeeze me so tightly, everyone is looking at us! -And if you weren’t watching, would you mind? (charity evening in Atlanta)

“Captain Butler, don’t hold me so tight.” I'll be angry. -You're great when you're angry. I’ll hold you even tighter—like this—on purpose to see how angry you’ll get. You don’t even suspect how dazzling you were back then in Twelve Oaks, when you threw vases in a rage.

− I intend to invite you to the next quadrille. And also for the next one and the next. - Oh no! I can't! You don't have to invite me. My reputation will die. “She’s already left in rags, so one more dance won’t change anything.”

-Were you married? -Where do you think I got my child from?! -Well, a husband is not the only possibility...

- It’s better to get a bullet in the forehead than to be married to a fool.

— Rhett

“You have an unusually disgusting ability to mock decency, turning it into impenetrable stupidity!”

— Scarlett to Rhett

“She just didn’t understand how this man always manages to piss everyone off.” (about Rhett)

- Women, in my opinion, can do everything in the world, and they don’t need any man, except to make children. And as for this, really, not a single woman, if she is in her right mind, will have a child of her own free will.

− According to the European code of etiquette, it is bad form and very bad taste when a husband and wife love each other. Marry for convenience, and love for pleasure.

— Rhett

- We live in a free country, and everyone has the right to be a scoundrel if he likes. Butler

- I invite you to become my mistress. - A mistress? What joy would I get from this other than a bunch of slobbering kids?

The war would be a wonderful picnic if it weren't for lice and dysentery.

Damn it, Scarlett, don't be a goose. How would I know about Ashley, standing up to my butt in the mud in the trenches?

— Uncle Henry

I myself will never understand or forgive myself for this idiotic act. I am infuriated by my quixoticism, which has not yet been completely overcome.

—Rhett, before joining the army

They told the truth about you. You are not a gentleman! “Weakly, my dear, very weakly.”

Her burden is her burden, and that means it should be up to her shoulder.

Why bother yourself with what you can’t get back - you need to think about what else can be changed.

Memories are precious things.

God intended a woman to be a modest, fearful creature, and if a woman is not afraid of anything, there is something contrary to nature in this... You need to retain the ability to fear something... just like the ability to love. Granny Fontaine

Don't yell - wait for your time with a smile. Granny Fontaine

If my husband ever decides to write such nonsense to me, he will get his ass from me! Scarlett reading Ashley's letter to Melanie

Strong people do not like witnesses to their weakness.

When you go all the way down, the road can only lead up.

Tears can be useful when there is a man nearby from whom you need to achieve something.

Perhaps fifteen years will pass, and the women of the South, with bitterness forever frozen in their eyes, will still look back, resurrecting in their memory times that have sunk into oblivion, men who have sunk into oblivion, raising from the bottom of their souls fruitlessly burning memories in order to carry with pride and dignity your poverty. But Scarlett won't look back.

Why is the memory of the heart weaker than the memory of the stomach?

Ellyn O'Hara was the audience before whom he performed a fascinating play called "The Life of Gerald O'Hara." Now the stage lights went out, the curtain dropped forever, the auditorium disappeared somewhere, and the old actor was left, struck by thunder, alone on the empty stage.

Life is enough like a nightmare during the day that they also torment me at night!

Food! Food! Why is the memory of the heart weaker than the memory of the stomach?

Scarlett knows how to face life, fights stubbornly, overcoming obstacles that stand in her way, storms them decisively, without thinking about the possibility of defeat, and continues to fight even when defeat cannot be avoided. Ashley

...to desire does not mean to receive.

Death, taxes, childbirth—neither one nor the other, nor the third ever happens on time. (Scarlett)

...she straightened her thin shoulders. And this gesture told him more than any words.

Ashley thought that he had truly never met a more courageous person than Scarlett O'Hara, who had decided to conquer the world with a dress made from her mother's velvet curtains and feathers plucked from a rooster's tail.

Battle is like champagne: it goes to the head of cowards and heroes alike. Any fool can become brave in battle, when there is little choice: if you are not brave, you will be killed. Ashley Wilkes

Nihil desperandum - never despair.

— Rhett)

You have much more charm than is allowed by law.

— Rhett

- Ah, Rhett... In the name of our old friendship, I want to ask you for a favor... - Well, finally, the lady with calloused hands has begun to fulfill her true mission.

Better hold on to your proven weapons - smiles, eyes, vases and the like.

Influence is everything, and issues of guilt or innocence are of purely academic interest.

— Rhett

At times, Rhett behaved simply monstrously. In fact, almost always.

That's just what we Southerners are: we can't help but side with a lost cause.

— Rhett

I am offended in my best feelings and deeply disappointed that you were after my money, and not at all my irresistible person.

Why do you think you're worth three hundred dollars? Most women don't charge that much.

You like me, Scarlett, admit it. -Well, sometimes a little. When you're not acting like a jerk.

I should love you because you are charming and have many amazing and worthless gifts! But there are many ladies in the world as charming and as worthless as you. But I like you immensely - I like the elasticity of your conscience and your moral rules, your egoism, which you very rarely take the trouble to hide, I like your strong grip on life, inherited from some not very distant Irish peasant ancestor.

— Rhett

- Fuck you - and not just in your free time. And in general you can get out: you’ve made me mad. “My little cat, I’ve already been to the devil, and he turned out to be incredibly boring.” I won’t go to him again, even to please you.

...nervous, shy and respectable, and you can’t imagine worse qualities for a man. Scarlett about Frank

It happened that Frank sighed heavily, thinking that he had caught a tropical bird, which was all fire and sparkling colors, whereas he would probably have been quite satisfied with an ordinary chicken.

If you don't do anything wrong, it's because you didn't get the chance, and people probably don't understand that.

My grandfather on the Butler side was a pirate. The old gentleman was mostly drunk, and when he got drunk, he forgot that he had served as a captain in the navy, and began to remember things that made his children's hair stand on end.

- I wonder what kind of grandchildren we will have! - You said “with us”, hinting that you and I may have common grandchildren? Hey, Mrs. Kennedy!

I have never desired a woman so much that I would marry her.

— Rhett

If only God would send your little lying little soul to hell forever!

— Rhett

Did the noble Ashley dare to kiss you at the risk of destroying his immortal soul?

Pride, and honor, and truthfulness, and chastity, and mercy. You're right, Scarlett, all this has no value when the boat goes down. But look around at your friends. They either land safely with all this cargo on the shore, or, having raised all the flags, they go to the bottom. “They’re idiots,” Scarlett snapped.

-So, why wasn’t there anything between you and Ashley? - Do you really think that Ashley would... - Oh, so Ashley, and not you, is leading this fight for purity! Really, Scarlett, don’t give yourself away so easily!

In my opinion, eating good food “and stuff like that” is one of the most enjoyable pastimes in the world.

Pride has an excellent taste, especially when the crust is crispy and even covered with glaze.

Dear Scarlett! You are not helpless! A man so selfish and so determined will never find himself helpless in any situation.

— Rhett

There will always be fifty witnesses to prove that a Southerner was where he was not.

Grandfather Merryweather and Uncle Henry Hamilton shamelessly declared that they had spent the evening in Belle Watling's brothel, and when Captain Jeffery irritably remarked that they were too old for such adventures, they almost attacked him with their fists.

Politeness does not interfere even in grief.

—Rhett, on the day of the funeral

I behaved so lowly, and he just died.

— Scarlett

Was your conscience not tormenting you too much when you were about to part with this treasure...umm...for three hundred dollars? “Of course, I didn’t think much about God then. And when I thought about it... well, I thought that God would understand.

You are just like a thief who is caught red-handed and who does not regret what he stole at all, he is very, very sorry that he will have to go to prison for it.

Why don't you marry a great young man with a bad reputation and a knack for dealing with women?

But Rhett, I don't love you. -This shouldn't hold you back. I don’t remember that love played a big role in your two previous enterprises.

It looks like I told you God knows how many stupid things at one time!

No, my dear, I’m not in love with you - just like you are with me, but even if I was, you would be the last person to whom I would admit it. God bless the one who truly loves you. You will break his heart, my sweet, fierce wild cat, who is so carefree and so confident in herself that she doesn’t even try to remove her claws.

Really, Scarlett, I can’t spend my whole life chasing you around, waiting to squeeze in between two husbands!

I apologize for frightening you with the vehemence of my feelings, my dear Scarlett—I mean my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It has not escaped your attention that for some time now my friendship for you has grown into a deeper feeling - a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more holy... Dare I name it? Oh! It was love that gave me such courage!

Tell me you'll marry me when I get back, or I swear to God I won't go anywhere. I will stay here and every evening I will appear with a guitar under your window and sing serenades at the top of my voice, and I will compromise you so much that you will have to marry me to save your reputation.

She did not understand Rhett and did not give herself the trouble to understand; sometimes there was something about him that puzzled her. For example, the way he looked at her when he thought she couldn't see it. Suddenly turning around, she suddenly noticed that he was watching her, and in his eyes there was tense, excited anticipation.

And why is everyone clucking about me like chickens? It's my business who I marry and how often I marry! Scarlett

You'll break Mommy's heart, and a heart like hers is too valuable to take and break.

Thank you for the crumbs from your table, Mrs. Bogachka.

— Rhett

Of course, it's scary to die of hunger in your sleep after eating a seven-course dinner, including that huge crab.

It's just that girls are more trouble than boys, and people tend to worry more about those who give them trouble than about others.

— Rhett

You'll have this baby, Scarlett, even if I have to handcuff you for the next nine months.

Well, who would have thought that of all people, it would be Rhett who would be so openly, so shamelessly proud of his paternity?

Your father was a hero, Wade. He married your mother, right? Well, this is already sufficient proof of his heroism.

— Rhett

Mrs. Merryweather was reluctant to admit that she had misjudged the man, but being an honest woman, she said that there was certainly something good in a man who loved his child so much.

Bonnie wrinkled her snub nose and fidgeted, freeing herself from his embrace. - Ugh, it smells so bad. - Damn me! I never thought that I would find a champion of abstinence in my own home!

Beauty does not make a woman a lady, and a dress does not make a real lady.

If the flag does not hold, it must be nailed to the mast.

— Rhett

If I am ready to tolerate the fact that my wife is a prostitute, I will not tolerate a coward.

But damn it, I wouldn't be mad at him if he took over your body. I know how little the body matters - especially the body of a woman. But I am angry with him for taking possession of your heart and your precious, cruel, unscrupulous, stubborn soul. And he, this idiot, doesn’t need your soul, but I don’t need your body. I can buy any woman cheap. But I want to own your soul and your heart, but they will never be mine...

We could be happy because I loved you and I know you, Scarlett, to the core - in a way that Ashley will never know you. And if he finds out, he will despise...

I swear to God, there will only be two of us in my bed tonight.

For the first time in her life, she met a man who was stronger than her, a man whom she could neither intimidate nor break, and who could intimidate and break her.

Everyone smiled, looking at the father and daughter - they smiled not mockingly, but sincerely, kindly. Rhett's great love for his daughter significantly helped restore his reputation in the eyes of society.

You can probably paint over a leopard’s spots, but no matter how much you paint them, it will still remain a leopard.

Mr. Butler, who calmly endured the antics of his little mistress when she pulled his tail, or allowed himself to endlessly inspect his hooves, believed that the Creator did not create him in order to carry his fat carcass over the crossbar.

“You killed her to please your pride!” - Don’t you have any pity? - No. And I don’t have a child either.

Scarlett had never needed friends until today - the day when Bonnie was no longer in the world, and she was so alone and scared and sitting at a sparkling dinner table opposite a drunk, stupid, completely strange man who had turned into an animal before her eyes.

Melanie is not as strong as you. She was never particularly strong at all. She had only one thing - this heart...

— Rhett

Melanie always stood next to the blade in her hand - stood unobtrusively, like a shadow, loving her, fighting for her with blind passionate devotion, fighting the Yankees, with poverty, with public opinion and even with her beloved relatives ... Scarlett felt that courage and confidence in their strength they leave her, for she realized that this blade, sparkling between her and the world, was now being sheathed forever. And Scarlett again found herself in Tara, and a hostile world was noisy before her, and she was in despair from the knowledge that she could not face life without feeling behind her shoulder the extraordinary strength of this weak, soft, gentle woman.

If I was once strong, it was only because she stood behind me, and ... all the strength I had went away with her. Ashley

Will Ashley be able to bear it all? I can do it. I can handle anything. But he won’t be able to—he won’t be able to bear anything without her.

Ashley doesn't love her and never really did, but it didn't hurt her. ...And if I hadn’t promised Mellie, I wouldn’t have cared even if I never saw him again.

Only half an hour ago she believed that she had lost everything except money - everything that made life desirable: Ellen, Gerald, Bonnie, Mammy, Melanie and Ashley. It turns out that she had to lose them all in order to understand how much she loves Rhett - she loves him because he is strong and unprincipled, passionate and earthly, like her.

She was beginning to understand what was going on in Rhett's soul when he said "I'm sorry" to the only person in the world he respected. She, of course, had not yet fully realized and could not understand what Rhett was feeling, but for a second it seemed to her as if the rustling skirts had touched her with the soft caress of the last “I’m sorry.” She watched through Rhett's eyes as not a woman passed away, but a legend—a meek, inconspicuous, but unbending woman to whom the South bequeathed to guard its hearth during the war and into whose proud but loving arms it returned after defeat.

Scarlett, has it ever occurred to you that even the most immortal love can wear out? So mine has worn out - in the fight with Ashley Wilkes and your insane stubbornness...

You accept love and hold it like a whip over a person's head.

In my opinion, you still remain a child. After all, only a child can be so stubborn and so insensitive.

Did it ever occur to you that I loved you as only a man can love a woman? And if you would only allow me, I would love you so tenderly, so carefully, as no man has ever loved.

Bonnie was not like you - she loved me, and I was happy to give her all the love that you didn’t need... When she died, everything went with her.

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. As long as I know you, you never have a handkerchief in difficult moments of your life.

I shouldn't do anything that might earn him contempt. He should respect me, even... even if he doesn't love me anymore.

She barely heard what he said. She only knew that she could no longer bear the sound of his voice, which was devoid of love.

You are so cruel to those who love you, Scarlett. You accept love and hold it like a whip over a person's head.

— Rhett

Scarlett, I have never been one of those people who patiently collects broken pieces, glues them together, and then tells myself that the repaired thing is no worse than new. What is broken is broken. And I’d rather remember how it looked when it was whole than glue it together, and then see the cracks for the rest of my life.

I'd like to worry about what you're doing and where you're going, but I can't. My dear, I don't care about it now.

If she had understood Ashley, she would never have loved him, but if she had understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

And strong in the spirit of her people, who do not accept defeat, even when it is obvious, Scarlett raised her head. She'll bring Rhett back. She knows what she will return.

There is no such person whom she could not conquer if she wanted.

“I’ll think about all this tomorrow, in Tara. Then I can. Tomorrow I'll find a way to get Rhett back. After all, tomorrow will be another day.”

Wade loved his mother very much - almost as much as he was afraid - and at the thought of her being carried on a black hearse drawn by black horses with feathers on their heads, his little chest was bursting with pain, so much so that it was even difficult for him breathe.

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I shouldn't think about it now. I’ll think about everything when I find the strength to endure it...

Somewhere in my chest, a pain stirred like a small angry animal, rolled up to my throat, shrank into a lump and hid, only to dissolve in tears.

I'll never look back. It hurts too much, it torments your heart too much, so then you are no longer capable of anything - you will keep looking back... This is what happens when you look back at the time when you were happy - nothing but pain, mental anguish and annoyance.

I don't need you to save me. I can take care of myself, merci.

You can get by very well without a good reputation, provided you have money and enough courage.

Deceiving yourself is the lot of weak natures.

By eavesdropping, you can sometimes learn a lot of interesting and instructive things.

... and he said that he prefers a bullet in the forehead than a fool for a wife.

...victory does not always go to those who go ahead.

Every person thinks differently, and everyone has the right to their opinion.

You can probably paint over a leopard’s spots, but no matter how much you paint them, it will still remain a leopard.

If I want something, I take it, so I don't have to fight angels or demons.

There is so much to think about. Why bother yourself with what you can’t get back - you need to think about what else can be changed.

I will think about what will happen tomorrow tomorrow.

A person cannot move forward if his soul is corroded by the pain of memories.

You have an unusually disgusting ability to mock decency, turning it into impenetrable stupidity

Deceiving yourself is the destiny of weak natures

I'll get through everything, and when it's over, I'll never, ever go hungry again. Neither me nor my loved ones. God is my witness, I would rather steal or kill, but I will not starve.

I shouldn't think about it now. I’ll think about everything when I find the strength to endure it...

Somewhere in the chest, a pain stirred like a small evil animal, rolled up to the throat, shrank into a lump and hid, only to dissolve in tears.

I don't need you to save me. I can take care of myself, merci

The man I would be afraid of has not yet been born

You can get by without a good reputation, provided you have money and enough courage

To be different from others... is a sin that no society forgives. Dare to be different from others - and you will be anathematized!

If you don't do anything wrong, it's only because you didn't have the opportunity

How highly women value the chains with which they are chained

It's easy to recognize a real lady: she doesn't eat anything

Death, taxes and births all hit us at the worst possible time

Tomorrow will be a completely different day

Only after losing your so-called “reputation” do you begin to understand what a burden this is and how good the “freedom” acquired at such a price is.

I have never been one of those who patiently collect the broken pieces, glue them together, and then tell myself that the repaired thing is no worse than the new one. What is broken is broken. And I’d rather remember how it looked when it was whole than glue it together, and then see the cracks for the rest of my life.

Memories are precious things

Happiness is possible only where similar people love each other

I'm not one of those who lick the whip that was used to whip him

Hardships either trim people or break them

Gone with the Wind (film)

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Gone With The Wind Genre

melodrama
Director
Victor Fleming
Producer
David O. Selznick
Screenplay
Margaret Mitchell (book), Sidney Howard
Starring
Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable
Composer
Max Steiner
Film company
Selznick International Pictures
Duration
222 min
Budget
$3.9 million
Country
USA
Language
English
Year
1939
Gone With The Wind
is one of the first color films made through the efforts of producer
D. Selznick
based on the novel of the same name
by Margaret Mitchell.
The film premiered on December 15, 1939

in the city of Atlanta, where its main action takes place. The film won 10 Oscars, a record that has not been broken for two decades. Gone with the Wind sold more tickets than any other Hollywood film; adjusted for inflation, this is the highest-grossing film in the history of cinema...