Bonnie London Bridge? Will it be fallin' down?
Well, it will if you want it to, darling.
Scarlett O'Hara
Vivien Leigh · 52 quotes
Rhett Butler
Clark Gable · 37 quotes
Mammy
Hattie McDaniel · 11 quotes
Ashley Wilkes
Leslie Howard · 7 quotes
Gerald O'Hara
Thomas Mitchell · 5 quotes
Prissy
Butterfly McQueen · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Rhett Butler & Scarlett O'Hara (17), Scarlett O'Hara & Mammy (3), Scarlett O'Hara & Ashley Wilkes (3)
Gone with the Wind quotes
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Brent Tarleton What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is gonna start any day now, so we'd have left college anyhow.
Stuart Tarleton
Oh, isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yanks may actually want a war?
Brent Tarleton We'll show 'em!
Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war; this war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides... there isn't going to be any war.
Brent Tarleton Not going to be any war?
Stuart Tarleton
Why, honey, of course there's gonna be a war.
If either of you boys says "war" just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.
Brent Tarleton But Scarlett, honey -
Stuart Tarleton
Don't you want us to have a war?
[She gets up and walks to the door, to their protestations] [relenting]
Well... but remember, I warned you.
Have you made a spectacle of yourself running after a man who's not in love with you when you might have any man in the county?
I haven't been running after him. It's just a surprise, that's all.
Now, don't be jerking your chin at me. If Ashley wanted to marry you, it would be with misgivings I'd say "yes". I want my girl to be happy. You'd not be happy with him.
I would, I would!
What difference does it make who you marry so long as he's a Southerner and thinks like you? And when I'm gone, I'll leave Tara to you.
I don't want Tara. Plantations don't mean anything when...
You mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts.
Oh, Pa, you talk like an Irishman.
It's proud I am that I'm Irish. And don't you be forgetting, Missy, that you're half Irish too. And to anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them, why, the land they live on is like their mother. Oh, but you're just a child. It'll come to you, this love of the land. There's no getting away from it if you're Irish.
Oh, no, you ain't. If you don't care what folks says about this family, I does. And I done told you and told you, you can always tell a lady by the way she eats in front of people - like a bird. And I ain't aimin' to have you go over to Mista John Wilkes' house and eat like a field hand and gobble like a hog.
Fiddle dee-dee! Ashley Wilkes says he likes to see a girl with a healthy appetite.
What a gentleman says and what they thinks is two different things. And I ain't noticed Mist' Ashley axin' for to marry ya.
Mammy, here's Miss Scarlet's vittles.
You can take it all back to the kitchen; I won't eat a bite.
Yes'm you is, you's gonna eat every mouthful of this.
Rene Picard Twenty dollars. Twenty dollars for Miss Maybelle Merriwether.
Tony Fontaine
Twenty five dollars for Miss Fanny Elsing.
Dr. Meade Only twenty five dollars to give?
One hundred and fifty dollars in gold.
Dr. Meade For what lady, sir?
For Mrs. Charles Hamilton.
Dr. Meade For whom, sir?
Mrs. Charles Hamilton.
Dr. Meade Mrs. Hamilton is in mourning, Captain Butler. But I'm sure any of our Atlanta belles would be proud to...
Dr. Meade, I said Mrs. Charles Hamilton.
Dr. Meade She will not consider it, sir.
Oh, yes, I will.
We sort of shocked the Confederacy, Scarlett.
It's a little like blockade-running, isn't it?
It's worse. I expect a very fancy profit out of it.
Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?
Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men you mean.
Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beauxs. I want more than flirting from you.
What do you want?
I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday, I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: 'I love you!'
That's something you'll never hear from me Captain Butler as long as you live.
Now that you've got your lumber mill and Frank's money, you won't come to me as you did to the jail, so I see I shall have to marry you.
I never heard of such bad taste.
Of course, the comic figure in all this is the long-suffering Mr. Wilkes! - Mr. Wilkes who can't be mentally faithful to his wife - and won't be unfaithful to her technically. Why doesn't he make up his mind?
Rhett, you-
[Rhett places his hands on ither side of Scarlett's face]
Observe my hands, my dear. I could tear you to pieces with them, and I'd do it if it'd take Ashley out of your mind forever. But it wouldn't. So I'll remove him from your mind forever this way. I'll put my hands so - one on each side of your head - and I'll smash your skull between them like a walnut, and that'll block him out.
What collateral are you offering?
My ear bobs.
Not interested.
Mortgage on Tara.
What would I do with a farm?
Oh, you wouldn't lose. I'd pay you back on next year's cotton.
Not good enough. Have you nothing better?
You once said you loved me. If you still love me Rhett...
You haven't forgotten. I'm not a marrying man.
No, I haven't forgotten.
You're not worth $300. You'll never mean anything but misery to any man.
You know, Scarlett, I think you're on the verge of a crying jag. So I'll change the subject and say what I came to say.
Say it, then, and get out! What is it?
That I can't go on any longer without you.
You are the most ill-bred man to come here at a time like this with your filthy...
I made up my mind that you were the only woman for me...the first day I saw you at Twelve Oaks. Now that you've got the lumber mill and Frank's money, you won't come to me as you did to the jail. So I see I shall have to marry you.
I never heard of such bad taste.
[After agreeing to marry Rhett]
Money does help and of course I am fond of you...If I said I was madly in love with you, you'd know I was lying. You always said we had a lot in common...
You're right, my dear. I'm not in love with you any more than you are with me. Heaven help the man who ever really loves you.
[as he is about to leave to join the Confederate Army]
Oh, Rhett! Please, don't go! You can't leave me! Please! I'll never forgive you!
I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know...and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.
Don't hold me like that!
Scarlett! Look at me! I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited for you longer than I've ever waited for any woman. [kisses her forehead]
Let me alone!
[forces her to look him in the eyes]
Here's a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett. Wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me, you're a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett! Kiss me! Kiss me...once... [kisses her]
Atlanta.
Savannah would be better for ya. You just get in trouble in Atlanta.
What trouble you talkin' 'bout?
You know what trouble I's talkin' 'bout. I was talking about Mr. Ashley Wilkes. He'll be comin' to Atlanta when he get's his leave, and you sattin' there waitin' for him, just like a spider. He belongs to Miss Melanie and-
You go pack my things like Mother said.