Gone with the Wind Quotes

Scarlett: I only know that I love you.

Rhett Butler: That's your misfortune.

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[first title card]

Title card: 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...

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[last lines]

Scarlett: Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day.

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Mammy: It ain't fittin'... it ain't fittin'. It jes' ain't fittin'... It ain't fittin'.

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[Dropping Scarlett at Ashley's birthday party]

Rhett Butler: You go into the arena alone. The lions are hungry for you.

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Gerald O'Hara: Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that Tara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dyin' for, because it's the only thing that lasts.

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Rhett Butler: With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

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Rhett Butler: No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.

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Mammy: 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.

Scarlett: Fiddle dee-dee! Ashley Wilkes says he likes to see a girl with a healthy appetite.

Mammy: Well, I ain't see Mista Ashley asked for to marry you.

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Prissy: Lawzy, we got to have a doctor. I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies.

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Rhett Butler: Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?

Scarlett: Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men you mean.

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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?

Rhett Butler: One hundred and fifty dollars in gold.

Dr. Meade: For what lady, sir?

Rhett Butler: For Mrs. Charles Hamilton.

Dr. Meade: For whom, sir?

Rhett Butler: 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...

Rhett Butler: Dr. Meade, I said Mrs. Charles Hamilton.

Dr. Meade: She will not consider it, sir.

Scarlett: Oh, yes, I will.

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[choked up about Rhett and Scarlett]

Mammy: He went out and shot that poor pony, and, for a minute, I thought he was gonna shoot himself.

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Scarlett: [pleads with Rhett 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!

Rhett Butler: 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.

Scarlett: [struggles] Don't hold me like that!

Rhett Butler: [holds her tighter] 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 forhead]

Scarlett: [turns her face away] Let me alone!

Rhett Butler: [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...
[he kisses her]

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Mammy: Oh now miss Scarlett you come on and eat juss a little honey!

Scarlett: No! I'm going to have a good time today... And do my eating at the barbeque

Mammy: If you dont care what folks says about dis family I does! I is told ya and told ya that you can always tell a lady by the way she eats in front of folks like a bird and I ain't aimin' for you to go to Mr. John Wilkes and eat like a field hand and gobble like a hog!

Scarlett: Fiddle-dee-dee! Ashley told me he likes to see a girl with a healthy appetite!

Mammy: What gentlemen says and what they thinks is 2 diffrent things, and I ain't noticed Mr. Ashley askin' for to marry you

Scarlett: [Turns around slowly to face Mammy then throws her umbrella and stuffs food into her mouth]

Mammy: Now don't eat too fast. Ain't no need for it come right back up again!

Scarlett: [With her mouth full] Why does a girl have to be so silly to catch a husband?

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Scarlett: You'd rather live with that silly little fool who can't open her mouth except to say yes or no and raise a passel of mealy-mouthed brats just like her.

Ashley: You mustn't say unkind things about Melanie.

Scarlett: Who are you to tell me I mustn't? You led me on... you made me believe you wanted to marry me.

Ashley: Now Scarlett, be fair. I never at any time...

Scarlett: You did, it's true, you did.

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Scarlett: What are you doing?

Rhett Butler: I'm leaving you, my dear. All you need now is a divorce and your dreams of Ashley can come true.

Scarlett: Oh, no! No, you're wrong, terribly wrong! I don't want a divorce. Oh Rhett, but I knew tonight, when I... when I knew I loved you, I ran home to tell you, oh darling, darling!

Rhett Butler: Please don't go on with this, Leave us some dignity to remember out of our marriage. Spare us this last.

Scarlett: This last? Oh Rhett, do listen to me, I must have loved you for years, only I was such a stupid fool, I didn't know it. Please believe me, you must care! Melly said you did.

Rhett Butler: I believe you. What about Ashley Wilkes?

Scarlett: I... I never really loved Ashley.

Rhett Butler: You certainly gave a good imitation of it, up till this morning. No Scarlett, I tried everything. If you'd only met me half way, even when I came back from London.

Scarlett: I was so glad to see you. I was, Rhett, but you were so nasty.

Rhett Butler: And then when you were sick, it was all my fault... I hoped against hope that you'd call for me, but you didn't.

Scarlett: I wanted you. I wanted you desperately but I didn't think you wanted me.

Rhett Butler: It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went,

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Scarlett: [to Rhett] If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

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[to Scarlett]

Rhett Butler: I've always thought a good lashing with a buggy whip would benefit you immensely.

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Scarlett: Now I didn't come to talk sillyness about me Rhett, I came cos I was so miserable at the thought of you in trouble. Oh I know I was mad at you the night you left me on the road to Tara and I still havent forgiven you!

Rhett Butler: Oh Scarlett don't say that!

Scarlett: Well I must admit I might not be alive now, only for you and when I think of myself with everything I could possibly hope for, and not a care in the world... And you here in this horrid jail, and not even a human jail Rhett, a horse jail!

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Scarlett: Atlanta.

Mammy: Savannah would be better for ya. You just get in trouble in Atlanta.

Scarlett: What trouble are you talking about?

Mammy: You know what trouble I's talkin' 'bout. Mr. Ashley be comin' to Atlanta when he get's his leave, and you sattin' there waitin' for him, just like a spider.

Scarlett: You go pack my things like Mother said.

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Rhett Butler: How fickle is woman.

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Rhett Butler: I'm very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening's over.

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Scarlett: Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.

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Scarlett: I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

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Rhett Butler: A cat's a better mother than you.

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Scarlett: I can shoot straight, if I don't have to shoot too far.

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Scarlett: Great balls of fire! HICCUP! It's Rhett!

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Rhett Butler: What a woman.

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[Upon being widowed]

Scarlett: My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me again.

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