Цитаты из книги Gone with the Wind

When I first met you, I thought: There is a girl in a million. She isn't like these other silly little fools who believe everything their mamas tell them and cut on it, no matter what they feel.

It seemed such a terrible waste to spend all your little girlhood learning how to be attractive and how to catch men and then only use the knowledge for a year or two.

She was hard-headed enough to be practical about the situation, and no one would ever know how she felt.

The war didn't seem to be holy affair, but a nuisance that killed men senselessly and cost money and made luxuries hard to get.

Virtues are stupid.

They were all beautiful with the blinding beauty that transfigures even the planiest woman when she is utterly protected and utterly loved and is giving back that love a thousand fold.

- Sir, you are gentelman!

• An opt observation. And you Miss, are no lady.

Love isn't enough to make a successful marriage when two people are as different as we are. You would want all of a man, Scarlett, his body, his heart, his soul, his thoughts. And if you did not have them, you would be misearable. And I couldn't give you all of me. I couldn't give all of me to anyone. And I would not want all be hurt, and then you would come to hate me - how bitterly! You would hate the books I read and the music I loved, because they took me away from you even for a moment.

Why, all we have is cotton and slaves and arrogance.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for this the only thing in this world that lasts, and don't you forgetting it! It's the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

No wife has ever changed a husband one whit, and don't you be forgetting that.

Only when like marries like can there be happiness.

She loved this land so much, without even knowing she loved it, loved it as she loved her mother's face under the lamp at prayer time.

He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life, and was neither heartened nor saddened. He accepted the universe and his place in it for what they were and shrugging, turned to his music and his better world.

Никакого удовольствия в браке нет. Это удовольствие для мужчин, хотя одному Богу известно, что они тут находят. Я этого никогда не могла понять. Женщине замужество приносит лишь бесплатную еду, прорву работы да ещё необходимость мириться с мужскими причудами. Ну, и конечно, по ребёнку в год.

Вечно мы ставили не на ту лошадь.

• Люди готовы прощать все, что угодно, моя кошечка, но никогда не прощают тех, кто не сует нос в чужие дела.

«Мы с вами благородством не отличаемся, и у нас нет понятия чести, верно? Вот потому мы и цветем, как вечнозеленый лавр.»