Gone with the Wind Quotes

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

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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 : I only know that I love you.
Rhett Butler : That's your misfortune.

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

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

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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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Pork : Great Gee-hossefat!

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

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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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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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Bonnie Blue Butler : London Bridge? Will it be falling down?
Rhett Butler : Well, it will if you want it to, darling.

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Dr. Meade : [ to Scarlett ] Now you've got to listen to me! You must stay here!
Aunt 'Pittypat' Hamilton : Without a chaperon, Dr. Meade? It simply isn't done!
Dr. Meade : Good heavens, woman! This is a war, not a garden party!

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Rhett Butler : Would you satisfy my curiosity on a point which has bothered me for some time?
Scarlett : Well, what is it? Be quick!
Rhett Butler : Tell me, Scarlett, do you never shrink from marrying men you don't love?
Scarlett : How did you ever get out of jail? Why didn't they hang you?

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Melanie Hamilton : So, you've got my husband intoxicated again, Captain Butler. Well, bring him in!
Tom - Yankee Captain : I'm sorry, Mrs. Wilkes. Your husband's under arrest.
Melanie Hamilton : If you arrest all the men who get intoxicated in Atlanta, you must have a good many Yankees in jail, Captain. Bring him in, Captain Butler, if you can walk yourself.

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Tom - Yankee Captain : Don't touch him. He's under arrest!
Rhett Butler : Now, Tom! What do you want to arrest him for? I've seen him drunker! I've seen you drunker! And you've seen me...
Tom - Yankee Captain : He can lie in the gutter for all I care! I'm not a policeman.

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Mammy : She says she's comin'. I don't know why she's comin', but she's a-comin'.
Rhett Butler : You don't like me, Mammy.
Mammy : Hmph!
Rhett Butler : Now don't you argue with me. You don't. You really don't. [ laughs ]

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Rhett Butler : So, you see I shall have to marry you.
Scarlett : I've never heard of such bad taste.
Rhett Butler : Would you be more convinced if I fell to my knees?
Scarlett : Turn me loose, you varmint, and get out of here!
Rhett Butler : Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett. I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. But it cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have felt for you has ripened into a deeper feeling. A feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it? Can it be love?
Scarlett : Get up off your knees! I don't like your common jokes!
Rhett Butler : This is an honorable proposal of marriage made at what I consider a most opportune moment. I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.
Scarlett : You're coarse, and you're conceited. And I think this conversation has gone far enough.

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