Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w...
MARGARET MITCHELL It was better to know the worst than to wonder.
MARGARET MITCHELL My dear, I don't give a damn.
MARGARET MITCHELL Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
MARGARET MITCHELL If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
MARGARET MITCHELL I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and pla...
MARGARET MITCHELL Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ...
MARGARET MITCHELL The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradual...
MARGARET MITCHELL The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre...
MARGARET MITCHELL Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.
MARGARET MITCHELL Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be...
MARGARET MITCHELL The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
MARGARET MITCHELL Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
MARGARET MITCHELL Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world ...
MARGARET MITCHELL Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
MARGARET MITCHELL Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
MARGARET MITCHELL Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
MARGARET MITCHELL Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
MARGARET MITCHELL I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. "I'm t...
MARGARET MITCHELL The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
MARGARET MITCHELL Hardships make or break people.
MARGARET MITCHELL In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being hel...
MARGARET MITCHELL Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be...
MARGARET MITCHELL Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she...
MARGARET MITCHELL They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so ...
MARGARET MITCHELL After all, tomorrow is another day.
MARGARET MITCHELL Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can b...
MARGARET MITCHELL I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.
...
MARGARET MITCHELL Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.
MARGARET MITCHELL Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.”

“Then you’ve made the only...
MARGARET MITCHELL My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business" - Rhet...
MARGARET MITCHELL All wars are sacred,” he said. “To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars ...
MARGARET MITCHELL How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
MARGARET MITCHELL The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanl...
MARGARET MITCHELL Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happ...
MARGARET MITCHELL I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn.
MARGARET MITCHELL No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the...
MARGARET MITCHELL Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
MARGARET MITCHELL Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. G...
MARGARET MITCHELL Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory...
MARGARET MITCHELL Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, M...
MARGARET MITCHELL But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward wi...
MARGARET MITCHELL I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.
MARGARET MITCHELL They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite...
MARGARET MITCHELL She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.
MARGARET MITCHELL Melanie is the gentlest of dreams and a part of my dreaming. And if the war had not come I would hav...
MARGARET MITCHELL There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.
MARGARET MITCHELL I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
MARGARET MITCHELL I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him...
MARGARET MITCHELL After all, tomorrow is another day!
MARGARET MITCHELL The history of the versions is a history of doctrine and dispute.
MARGARET MITCHELL [The house Rhett Butler built for Scarlett] could have been in Omaha so little does it resemble any ...
MARGARET MITCHELL Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w...
MARGARET MITCHELL I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've go...
MARGARET MITCHELL What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre...
MARGARET MITCHELL Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
MARGARET MITCHELL With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
MARGARET MITCHELL My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business
MARGARET MITCHELL There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.
MARGARET MITCHELL The-18 month period is a compromise between the feeling that two years is a little bit too long for ...
MARGARET MITCHELL I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
MARGARET MITCHELL He was so very large and male, and excessively male creatures always discomposed her.
MARGARET MITCHELL Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli...
MARGARET MITCHELL Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin gold-fish bowls filled to the brim with the cleare...
MARGARET MITCHELL Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pai...
MARGARET MITCHELL Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin goldfish bowls filled to the brim with the cleares...
MARGARET MITCHELL - Não sei se interprete as suas palavras como um galanteio, se não - replicou Scarlett, indecisa.<...
MARGARET MITCHELL Why be an ostrich?
MARGARET MITCHELL Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that w...
MARGARET MITCHELL I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a c...
MARGARET MITCHELL Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
MARGARET MITCHELL I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, ...
MARGARET MITCHELL Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.
MARGARET MITCHELL I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I ad...
MARGARET MITCHELL Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my de...
MARGARET MITCHELL I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.
MARGARET MITCHELL Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but...
MARGARET MITCHELL Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler
MARGARET MITCHELL And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
MARGARET MITCHELL I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clot...
MARGARET MITCHELL You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads l...
MARGARET MITCHELL Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.
MARGARET MITCHELL Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
MARGARET MITCHELL Afternoon naps were a custom of the country and never were they so necessary as on the all-day parti...
MARGARET MITCHELL This," said a voice from the depths of the sofa, "is too much.
MARGARET MITCHELL As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
MARGARET MITCHELL These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome,...
MARGARET MITCHELL It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land wher...
MARGARET MITCHELL What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the...
MARGARET MITCHELL War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and s...
MARGARET MITCHELL Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
MARGARET MITCHELL A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away ...
MARGARET MITCHELL Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
MARGARET MITCHELL But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could no...
MARGARET MITCHELL I just can't imagine what it's going to be like without him. We've been together a long time.
MARGARET MITCHELL She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkne...
MARGARET MITCHELL Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bo...
MARGARET MITCHELL Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
MARGARET MITCHELL I love you, Scarlett, because we are so much alike, renegades, both of us, dear, and selfish rascals...
MARGARET MITCHELL Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses ...
MARGARET MITCHELL Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ...
MARGARET MITCHELL The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't go...
MARGARET MITCHELL He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there mi...
MARGARET MITCHELL Accepting Uncle Tom’s Cabin as revelation second only to the Bible, the Yankee women all wanted to...
MARGARET MITCHELL Why is it a girl has to be so silly to catch a husband?”

“Ah specs it’s kase gempmu...
MARGARET MITCHELL All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.
MARGARET MITCHELL Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Sc...
MARGARET MITCHELL [T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
MARGARET MITCHELL Drink and dissipation had done their work on the coin-clean profile and now it was no longer the hea...
MARGARET MITCHELL Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same...
MARGARET CHO I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ...
MARGARET MEAD I'm pretty casual. I love Free People and small vintage boutiques.
MARGARET QUALLEY If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
MARGARET FULLER The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
MARGARET THATCHER Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
MARGARET THATCHER No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not alway...
MARGARET THATCHER Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
MARGARET THATCHER There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
MARGARET THATCHER There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
MARGARET THATCHER To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it fu...
MARGARET THATCHER Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both ...
MARGARET THATCHER It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
MARGARET THATCHER What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing...
MARGARET THATCHER Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those ...
MARGARET CAVENDISH Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEAD Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
MARGARET MEAD It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...
MARGARET MEAD One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home...
MARGARET MEAD Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. ...
MARGARET MEAD Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare ...
MARGARET MEAD Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...
MARGARET MEAD I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son...
MARGARET WALKER Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you ...
MARGARET WALKER The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
MARGARET WALKER What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
MARGARET SMITH Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
MARGARET THATCHER Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
MARGARET ATWOOD Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
MARGARET THATCHER Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
MARGARET ATWOOD And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know wh...
MARGARET SPELLINGS In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they wa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.
MARGARET SPELLINGS There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing...
MARGARET SPELLINGS I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
MARGARET SPELLINGS It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
MARGARET SPELLINGS I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
MARGARET SPELLINGS We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holdi...
MARGARET SPELLINGS Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountabil...
MARGARET SPELLINGS We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share t...
MARGARET SPELLINGS I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
MARGARET SPELLINGS I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and...
MARGARET SPELLINGS What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
MARGARET SPELLINGS Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of eve...
MARGARET SPELLINGS My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special educat...
MARGARET SPELLINGS And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particular...
MARGARET SPELLINGS Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they ...
MARGARET ATWOOD My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r...
MARGARET WALKER A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
MARGARET ATWOOD If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz...
MARGARET ATWOOD If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
MARGARET THATCHER The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many...
MARGARET ATWOOD A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
MARGARET THATCHER I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w...
MARGARET THATCHER An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
MARGARET ATWOOD If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
MARGARET ATWOOD Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space be...
MARGARET ATWOOD I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did,...
MARGARET ATWOOD When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
MARGARET ATWOOD You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come wit...
MARGARET ATWOOD Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do ...
MARGARET ATWOOD So you are a vampire."

"I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a commo...
MARGARET STOHL Don't let the bastards grind you down.
MARGARET ATWOOD When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict.
MARGARET ATWOOD Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar...
MARGARET MEAD I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a...
MARGARET CHO At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,...
MARGARET CHAN Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let...
MARGARET BECKETT Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but ...
MARGARET ATWOOD People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you...
MARGARET THATCHER