Margaret Mitchell Zitate

“Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“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 buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.”

Margaret Mitchell

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

Margaret Mitchell

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”

Margaret Mitchell

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“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 buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“My dear, I don't give a damn.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

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

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Hardships make or break people.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“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 buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“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 buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again…. Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love…”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't… My dear, I don't give a damn.”

Margaret Mitchell buch Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)