Margaret Mitchell quotes - page 3

Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Gone with the Wind." Her work became a cultural phenomenon and was later adapted into an iconic film. She continues to be recognized as one of the most influential writers in American literature. Here are 106 of her quotes:

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it. (Margaret Mitchell)
Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. View quote
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Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed. View quote
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Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down? View quote
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Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” "Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness. View quote
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God help the man who ever really loves you. View quote
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Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself-and keep it there. View quote
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All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt. (Margaret Mitchell)
They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews. View quote
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He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him. View quote
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What's broken is broken-and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live...I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over. View quote
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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. View quote
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But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories. View quote
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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. View quote
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you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you. View quote
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It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin. View quote
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Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. View quote
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She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern. (Margaret Mitchell)
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. View quote
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But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out? View quote
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They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it. View quote
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She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality. View quote
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Margaret Mitchell

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Occupation: American Author
Born: November 8, 1900
Died: August 16, 1949
Quotes count: 106
Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell

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