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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Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

Margaret Mitchell

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.

Margaret Mitchell

So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

Margaret Mitchell

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

Margaret Mitchell

I stood there in the doorway before you saw me and I watched you,' he said.'And I watched the other girls. And they all looked as though their faces came out of one mold. Yours didn’t.

Margaret Mitchell

You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.

Margaret Mitchell

Pride & honor & truth & virtue & kindliness," he enumerated silkily. "You are right, Scarlett. They aren't important when a boat is sinking. But look around you at your friends. Either they are bringing their boats ashore safely with cargoes intact o...

Margaret Mitchell

You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

Margaret Mitchell

I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

Margaret Mitchell

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

Margaret Mitchell

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Margaret Mitchell

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Margaret Mitchell

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

Margaret Mitchell

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Margaret Mitchell

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Margaret Mitchell

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Margaret Mitchell

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