Gone with the Wind quotes

103 total quotes

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Rhett Butler
Scarlett O'Hara
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View Quote It ain't fittin'... it ain't fittin'. It jes' ain't fittin'... It ain't fittin'.

View Quote Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beauxs. I want more than flirting from you.
Scarlett: What do you want?
Rhett: 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!'
Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me Captain Butler as long as you live.

View Quote There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South... Here in this pretty world Gallantry took its last bow.. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization gone with the wind...

View Quote Dr. Meade: Good heavens woman this is war! Not a garden party!

View Quote I'm going to Atlanta for that $300 and I gotta go looking like a queen.

View Quote Frank Kennedy: [about Scarlett] She can get mad quicker than any woman I ever saw.

View Quote I says I gwine with you ter Atlanta and gwine I is!

View Quote Uncle Henry: [to a rooster] No more gettin' so uppity. Even if you is the last chicken in Atlanta.

View Quote Belle Watling: [about Scarlett] She's a mighty cold woman. Prancing about Atlanta by herself. She killed her husband same as if she shot him.

View Quote Panic hit the City with the first of Sherman's shells. Helpless and unarmed, the populace fled from the oncoming Juggernaut. And desperately, the gallant remains of an army marched out to face the foe.

View Quote I can shoot straight, if I don't have to shoot too far.

View Quote Ooh, if I just wasn't a lady, WHAT wouldn't I tell that varmint.

View Quote I'm too young to be a widow. My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me again.

View Quote You go into the arena alone. The lions are hungry for you. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen... I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we... All we've got is cotton and slaves, and arrogance... I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars and dreams of victory.

View Quote Thank heaven I'm not that modest.