Quotes by Margaret Mitchell

About Margaret Mitchell:

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.
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Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.

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I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

Margaret Mitchell

Oh - a diamond ring - and Rhett, do buy a great big one!

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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. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took...

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You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

Margaret Mitchell

I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlem...

Margaret Mitchell

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

Margaret Mitchell

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

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Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom...

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If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualiti...

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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.

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As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

Margaret Mitchell

Rhett, do you really--is it to protect me that you--" "Yes, my dear, it is my much advertised chivalry that makes me protect you." The mocking light began to dance in his black eyes and all signs of earnestness fled from his face. "And why? Because o...

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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.

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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.

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She had never understood either of the men she had loved and so she had lost them both. Now, she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost h...

Margaret Mitchell

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.

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Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink o...

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Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to find that their wives do have sense?" "Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.

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men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

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All wars are sacred,to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble pur...

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Author Bio

  • NameMargaret Mitchell
  • DescriptionAmerican author and journalist
  • BornNovember 8, 1900
  • DiedAugust 16, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Novelist
  • WorksGone With The Wind; Lost Laysen
  • AwardsNational Book Award