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!
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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Prissy : Mammy, here's Miss Scarlett'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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Scarlett : Atlanta!
Mammy : Savannah would be better for ya. You'd just get in trouble in Atlanta.
Scarlett : What trouble are you talking about?
Mammy : You know what trouble I's talkin' 'bout. I's talking 'bout Mr. Ashley Wilkes. He'll be comin' to Atlanta when he gets his leave, and you sittin' there waitin' for him, just like a spider. He belongs to Miss Melanie...
Scarlett : You go pack my things like Mother said.

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

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

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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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Mammy : Oh now, Miss Scarlett, you come on and eat jess a little, honey!
Scarlett : No! I'm going to have a good time today, and do my eating at the barbeque.
Mammy : If you don't 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 eat in front of folks like a bird. And I ain't aimin' for you to go to Mr. John Wilkenson's 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 two different 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 : Now I didn't come to talk silliness about me, Rhett. I came 'cause 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 haven't 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 : 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 anymore.

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

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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 : 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 : 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, she took everything.
Scarlett : Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don't say that. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything.
Rhett Butler : My darling,

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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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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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