These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason. Margaret Mitchell More Quotes by Margaret Mitchell More Quotes From Margaret Mitchell In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out. Margaret Mitchell brain civilization people Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed. Margaret Mitchell pleasure fighting want The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there. Margaret Mitchell conversation men way If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything. Margaret Mitchell losing-everything dread ifs I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back. Margaret Mitchell hurt heart looks There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do. Margaret Mitchell men war You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip. Margaret Mitchell whips brutal love-you He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster. Margaret Mitchell conquer-the-world roosters mother Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down? Margaret Mitchell hush marry-me asking It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence. Margaret Mitchell vanity land men I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow. Margaret Mitchell crazy tomorrow thinking Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him. Margaret Mitchell ashley understood lost Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient. Margaret Mitchell impatient kissing heart Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan. Margaret Mitchell bark fear-nothing dog Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears. Margaret Mitchell ears memories fall Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. Margaret Mitchell sexy kissing love Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. Margaret Mitchell time birthday death I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face. Margaret Mitchell goes-on faces sweet Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed. Margaret Mitchell littles beautiful men Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything. Margaret Mitchell gone-love land wind
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