Gone with the Wind Quotes

Rhett Butler: I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

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Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?

Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

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Scarlett: Sir, you are no gentleman.

Rhett Butler: And you, Miss, are no lady.

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Scarlett: Oh Ashley, Ashley, I love you.

Ashley: Scarlett...

Scarlett: I love you, I do.

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Scarlett: As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

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

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Pork: Great Gee-hossefat!

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Scarlett: She's being just like Pa. Just Like Pa!

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Prissy: Mammy, here's Miss Scarlet's vittles.

Scarlett: You can take it all back to the kitchen; I won't eat a bite.

Mammy: Yes'm you is, you's gonna eat every mouthful of this.

Scarlett: No... I'm... NOT.

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Rhett Butler: 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.

Scarlett: I never heard of such bad taste.

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Gerald O'Hara: It will come to you, this love of the land. There's no gettin' away from it if you're Irish.

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Scarlett: Cathleen, Who's that?

Cathleen Calvert: Who?

Scarlett: That man looking at us and smiling? The nasty dark one?

Cathleen Calvert: My dear don't you know? Thats Rhett Butler! He's from Charleston, he has the most terrible reputation!

Scarlett: He looks as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy

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Rhett Butler: You still think you're the cutest trick in shoe leather.

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Scarlett: Now isn't this better than sitting at a table? A girl hasn't got but two sides to her at the table.

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Rhett Butler: Take a good look my dear. It's an historic moment you can tell your grandchildren about - how you watched the Old South fall one night.

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Scarlett: But you are a blockade runner.

Rhett Butler: For profit, and profit only.

Scarlett: Are you tryin' to tell me you don't believe in the cause?

Rhett Butler: I believe in Rhett Butler, he's the only cause I know.

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Rhett Butler: And those pantalettes, I don't know a woman in Paris who wears pantalettes.

Scarlett: Oh Rhett, what do they - you shouldn't talk about such things.

Rhett Butler: You little hypocrite. You don't mind my knowing about them, just my talking about it.

Scarlett: But really Rhett, I can't go on accepting these gifts although you are AWFULLY kind.

Rhett Butler: I'm not kind, I'm just tempting you.

Scarlett: Well if you think I'll marry you just to pay for the bonnet I won't.

Rhett Butler: Don't flatter yourself. I'm not a marrying man.

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Scarlett: Cathleen, who's that?

Cathleen Calvert: Who?

Scarlett: That man looking at us and smiling. The nasty, dark one.

Cathleen Calvert: My dear, don't you know? That's Rhett Butler. He's from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.

Scarlett: He looks as if... as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy.

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Scarlett: Rhett, don't. I shall faint.

Rhett Butler: I want you to faint. This is what you were meant for. None of the fools you've ever know have kissed you like this, have they? Your Charles, or your Frank, or your stupid Ashley.

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[choked up about Rhett and Scarlett]

Mammy: It makes my blood run cold, the things they say to one another.

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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!

Scarlett: 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.

Scarlett: If either of you boys says war just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.

Brent Tarleton: But Scarlett...

Stuart Tarleton: Don't you *want* us to have a war?
[she gets up and walks to the door, to their protestations]

Scarlett: [relenting] Well... but remember, I warned you.

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Scarlett: [to Ashley] Dreams, dreams always dreams with you, never common sense.

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Rhett Butler: You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail.

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Scarlett: Go! Go!
[She whips the horse many times, and it falls down dead]

Prissy: It's dead! It's dead!

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Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

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Scarlett O'Hara: After all, tomorrow is another day!

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Scarlett O'Hara: As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

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Gerald O'Hara: It will come to you, this love of the land. There's no gettin' away from it if you're Irish.

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Rhett Butler: I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

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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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