"Gone with the Wind" is a fascinating novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, which describes love story taking place during and after the American Civil War. The novel is a classic American literature and was also filmed. Exactly " gone With the Wind"is the world's first full-length color film. The film received 8 Oscar awards, which was considered a record for a long time. Quotes from the book and film “Gone with the Wind” are very tender and sensual.

Quotes from the book "Gone with the Wind"

I won't think about it now. I'll think about it tomorrow.

A real lady doesn't show off her breasts until lunchtime.

Many of the world's disasters have resulted from wars. And then, when the war ended, no one, in essence, could really explain what it all was about.

You are not worthy to wipe the dust off his boots!
- And you will hate Ashley until your death!

I don't need you to save me. I can take care of myself, merci.

There will always be wars because that’s how people are made. Women - no. But men need war - oh yes, no less than women's love.

Don't waste your time, it's the stuff life is made of.

You can earn no less from the collapse of civilization than from creating it.

...and the flutter of her eyelashes sealed his fate.

Captain Butler, don't hold me so tight, everyone is looking at us!
-And if you weren’t watching, would you mind?

I myself will never understand or forgive myself for this idiotic act. I am infuriated by my quixoticism, which has not yet been completely overcome.

They told the truth about you. You are not a gentleman!
- Weakly, my dear, very weakly.

Quotes from the movie "Gone with the Wind"

Her burden is her burden, and that means it should be up to her shoulder.

To be honest, my dear, I don't care.

I will think about it tomorrow.

It's better to get a bullet in the forehead than to be married to a fool.

You were honored to grace the Whites' Christmas table.

God is my witness, I would rather steal or kill, but I will not starve!

Sir, you are not a gentleman!
- Just like you, miss, not a lady.

Madam, you are not worth three hundred dollars.

Oh, Rhett, you... you're so sweet.
- Thank you for the crumbs from your table, Mrs. Bogachka.

Marriage is a pleasure for a man.

I feel sorry for her, and I don’t like people who make me feel sorry for her.

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Everything inherent in her by nature, even her merciless grip on life, is much more attractive than any mask that she can put on herself.

At sixteen, vanity turned out to be stronger than love and drove everything out of her heart except hatred.

She was literally bursting with the desire to tell about this in every detail, so that, having frightened others, she herself would get rid of the fear. I wanted to describe my bravery and thereby convince myself that she really was brave.

Big money can be made in two cases: when a new state is created and when it collapses. In creation this process is slower, in destruction it is faster.

And at that very moment desire flared up in her. She wanted him to belong to her, she wanted him without reasoning, as naturally and simply as she wanted to have food to satisfy her hunger, a horse to ride, a soft bed to rest on.

England never takes the side of the vanquished. That's why she is England.

The main thing is to work tirelessly and stop tormenting yourself because the Yankees are now in charge.

This is the problem of all northern women. They would be seductive if they didn’t constantly say that they know how to stand up for themselves, merci. And in most cases they tell the truth, God save them and have mercy. And of course, men leave them alone.

To desire does not mean to receive. But life has not yet taught us that victory does not always go to those who go ahead.

“She was my only dream come true,” he said with difficulty, “she lived and breathed and did not dissipate from contact with reality.

If I was ever strong, it was only because she stood behind me.

She loves you. So you will have to bear this cross too.

When love raged in her heart, she was not able to understand him. Now, in the atmosphere of calm friendship established between them, she managed to penetrate his thoughts a little, to understand him a little.

We bow to the inevitable. But not like wheat, but like buckwheat! When a storm comes, the wind crushes the ripe wheat because it is dry and does not bend. Ripe buckwheat has juice in its stem and bends. And when the wind subsides, it rises again, just as straight and strong as before.

I love babies and little children before they grow up and think like adults and learn to lie and deceive and be mean like adults.

Ashley thought that he had never really met a more courageous person than Scarlett O'Hara, who had decided to conquer the world with a dress made from her mother's velvet curtains and feathers plucked from a rooster's tail.

And if you can, try not to be more of a fool than you really are.

When will you finally stop expecting compliments from men for every trifling reason?

Not everything can be bought with money.
- Who gave you this idea? You yourself could not have thought of such a banality. What can't money buy?
- Well... I don’t know... In any case, happiness and love are not allowed.
- Most often it is possible. And if it doesn’t work out, then you can always find an excellent replacement.

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In the dull twilight of a fading winter day, Scarlett came to the end of the long path that she had set out on the night of the fall of Atlanta. Then she was a spoiled, selfish, inexperienced girl, young, ardent, filled with amazement at life. Now, at the end of that path, there is nothing left of this girl. Hunger and hard work, fear and constant exertion of all forces, the horrors of war and the horrors of Reconstruction robbed her of the warmth of her soul, and youth, and gentleness. Her soul hardened and seemed to be covered with a crust, which gradually, from month to month, layer by layer thickened.

My darling, he doesn’t even know that you have a mind. If he were attracted to you by your intelligence, he would not need to defend himself so much from you in order to preserve this love of his in all its, so to speak, “holiness”! He would live in peace, because a man can admire the mind and soul of a woman, while remaining a respected gentleman and remaining faithful to his wife. And it is apparently difficult for him to reconcile the honor of the Wilkes with the thirst to possess you, which consumes him.

But no matter what their eyes saw and no matter how hard their hands were occupied, they remained ladies and gentlemen, crowned heads in exile - full of bitterness, coldly indifferent, incurious, good friend to a friend, hard as diamond and as shiny and fragile as the crystal pendants of the broken chandelier above their heads. The old days are gone forever, but these people will continue to live according to their customs - as if nothing has changed - charmingly slow, firmly convinced that there is no need to rush and, like the Yankees, make a dump over an extra penny, firmly resolved don't give up old habits.

It seemed to her that she would suffocate, her head was splitting from thoughts that she again and again chased along the beaten path, trying in vain to understand the situation. She was mentally broken: it seemed to her that she, like a lost child, had wandered into some terrible land, where there was not a single familiar pillar or sign that would show the way.

Tears drained the soul, but when they couldn’t fall, it was even harder.

I discovered that money is the most important thing in the world, and God is my witness, I don’t want to live without it anymore!

My child, it is very bad for a woman to know the worst thing, because then she ceases to be afraid of anything at all. And it’s bad when a woman has no fear in her soul.<…>yes, yes, fifty years have passed since then, but from that moment I was never afraid of anyone or anything, because the worst thing that could happen to me had already happened. And the fact that I never knew fear again brought me many troubles in life. God intended a woman to be a modest, fearful creature, and if a woman is not afraid of anything, there is something contrary to nature in it... You need to retain the ability to be afraid of something, Scarlett... just like the ability to love...

Ashley was from a family of dreamers - a descendant of people who, from generation to generation, devoted their leisure time to thoughts rather than actions, reveling in rosy dreams that had nothing to do with reality. He lived contentedly with his inner world, even more beautiful, in his opinion, than Georgia, and only reluctantly returned to reality. Looking at people, he felt neither attraction nor antipathy towards them. Looking at life, he was not saddened and did not rejoice. He accepted the existing world order and his place in it as something given, established once and for all, shrugged his shoulders and returned to another, better world- to your books and music.

My inner little world collapsed, people burst into it, whose views I did not share, whose actions were as alien to me as the actions of the Hottentots. They walked through my world with dirty shoes, and there was not a single corner left where I could hide when it became unbearably hard for me.

But Scarlett just wanted her mother to be nearby in these moments of her first great grief. Near her mother she always felt somehow more reliable: any trouble was not so terrible when Ellin was nearby.

And at that very moment desire flared up in her. She wanted him to belong to her, she wanted him without reasoning, as naturally and simply as she wanted to have food to satisfy her hunger, a horse to ride, a soft bed to rest on.

The ladies thought Rhett was disgustingly, unbearably vulgar. Men behind his back said that he was a pig and a scoundrel. In a word, the new Atlanta loved Rhett no more than the old one, and he, as before, did not even try to improve relations with her. He followed his own path, amusing himself, despising everyone, deaf to the claims of those around him, so emphatically amiable that his very amiability looked like a challenge.

Scarlett had a strange, painful feeling that this man, for whom the doors of good houses were closed, was the only one of all those present who guessed what was hidden under her desperate feigned gaiety, and was amused, as if he received some kind of bilious pleasure from it.

“I feel how youthful ideals come to life in me at the thought that such love can exist in our sinful world,” he continued. - So there is nothing carnal in Ashley’s love for you? And would this love be the same if you were ugly and did not have your snow-white skin? And you wouldn’t have those green eyes that make a man want to embrace you - maybe you wouldn’t resist. And if you weren't so swaying your hips, seducing indiscriminately all men under ninety years of age? And if these lips... but here it’s better for me to hold back my animal lust. So Ashley doesn't see all this? And if he sees it, doesn’t it bother him at all?

I myself don’t know when I really realized that my shadow theater had come to an end. But I knew that it was over and I could no longer be just a spectator. And I suddenly discovered that I was on stage, that I was an actor, grimacing and gesticulating in vain.

They flew by quickly, these days, filled with the aroma of pine branches and a Christmas tree, in the flickering light of Christmas tree candles, in the sparkle of sparkles and tinsel, they flew by like in a dream, where every minute of life is equal to one heartbeat.

Oh no! I can't! You don't have to invite me. My reputation will die.
- There are already only rags left of her...

God is my witness, God is my witness, I won’t let the Yankees break me. I'll get through everything, and when it's over, I'll never, ever go hungry again. Neither me nor my loved ones. God is my witness, I would rather steal or kill, but I will not starve.

Margaret Mitchell's "brave little woman" novel will forever remain one of the greatest literary masterpieces of the 20th century. The life of the old South is transferred with such love to the pages of the book that once you have read it, you will no longer forget either the heroes of the novel or this era that has sunk into the abyss. The red earth of Tara gave strength to continue to live not only to the main character, but also to many readers who returned to these pages again and again. The inimitable, cynical and businesslike Rhett Butler, the dreamy and romantic Ashley Wilkes, the strong and controversial Scarlett O'Hara will forever remain in the memory of everyone who has ever held this great novel in their hands.

Why do you have to make a fool of yourself to get a husband?

A gentleman always pretends to believe a lady, even if he knows that she is not telling the truth.

I discovered that money is the most important thing in the world, and God is my witness, I don’t want to live without it anymore!

Interesting facts:

• The writer only allowed her husband to review the initial chapters of the novel, and it was his criticism that she listened to most.
• In 1937, the bestselling book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
• Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett in the film of the same name, did not get along very well on film set with a colleague who played the role of Ashley Wilkes, while Clark Gable, who played the role of Rhett, became the actress’s faithful friend.

But, Rhett, I wanted you to go to hell first!

There is so much to think about. Why bother yourself with what you can’t get back - you need to think about what else can be changed.

Rhett Butler: “Marry for convenience, love for pleasure”

This means that I am right that any virtue can be bought with money - the only question is the price.

In the end, what will happen to us, apparently, is what always happens when civilization collapses. People with intelligence and courage swim out, and those who do not have these qualities go to the bottom.

Big money can be made in two cases: when a new state is created and when it collapses. In creation this process is slower, in destruction it is faster.

No matter what slogans the speakers shout, driving fools to the slaughter, no matter how noble the goals set for them, the cause of wars is always the same. Money.

This is interesting:

• Mitchell transferred the rights to the film adaptation of her bestseller for $50,000.
• Wow! Clark Gable was bought for the intended role from MGM for as much as $1.2 million! The creator of the novel herself wanted the role to be played by comedian Groucho Marx. Needless to say, Clark’s earnings exceeded Vivienne’s fee by almost 5 times! ($120 thousand versus $25 thousand)
• Mitchell did not like the final script for the film, but the director did not pay attention to her dissatisfaction. It is curious that the famous Scott Fitzgerald participated in the creation of some scenes of the film, but he was not even mentioned in the credits.
• The Oscar for Best Screenplay was awarded posthumously to Sidney Howard, because he died a month before the film was released.
• Oddly enough, Alfred Hitchcock himself was entrusted with helping to film one of the scenes of the film, but his work did not make it into the final version.

“Oh, sure, you're quite smart when it comes to dollars and cents. Smart like a man. But as a woman you are not smart at all. When it comes to people, you are not at all smart."

Politeness does not interfere even in grief.

There is too much nobility in her for her to believe that those she loves lack nobility. (about Melanie)

We live in a free country, and everyone has the right to be a scoundrel if he likes.

Women have such strength and endurance that men have never dreamed of - yes, I always thought so, although from childhood I was taught that women are fragile, gentle, sensual creatures.

Other quotes from the book and film

“Don’t waste time, it’s the stuff life is made of.” Inscription on the clock at Twelve Oaks

Oh, these lazy, unhurried days and quiet, warm rural twilight! Muffled female laughter in services! How golden-warm life was then, how warm the calm confidence was that tomorrow it would be the same! Is it possible to cross out all this?

And when you put your work into something, you begin to love it. Will Benteen.

This is interesting:

• At the end of filming, the performer leading role began to experience irritation and dissatisfaction with everything around her, while Vivienne was able to win the long-awaited Oscar with the help of this role.
• The heroine Vivien Leigh had as many as 27 almost identical purple outfits, which differed only in the degree of wear and tear. This technique made it possible to see how Scarlett’s only dress lost its shape and strength over the years.
• The actress who played the mother of the main character was only 3 years older than Vivien Leigh at the time of filming.
• Hattie McDaniel, who played the black nanny, became the first African-American woman to win an Oscar. The funny thing is that, due to the laws that existed at that time, she couldn’t even get to the premiere.

Land is the only thing in the world that has value. Gerald O'Hara

Many of the world's disasters have resulted from wars. And then, when the war ended, no one, in essence, could really explain what it was all about. Ashley Wilkes

“A burden is made for shoulders strong enough to bear it...”

• The film received eight Academy Awards and is considered one of the highest-grossing films in the history of American cinema.
• A big contribution to the popularity of the film was made by the fact that the film was in color, which undoubtedly attracted crowds of spectators.
• A ticket to the film premiere cost about $10, but cunning speculators managed to sell passes to the cinema for $200!

AND strong in spirit of her people, who do not accept defeat, even when it is obvious, Scarlett raised her head. She'll bring Rhett back. She knows she will return it. There is no such person whom she could not conquer if she wanted.

The last lines of the novel can restore confidence that life must go on, no matter what. We must find the strength to continue to live and fight - as the heroes of the novel did. And believe that “tomorrow will be a completely different day!”

Quotes from the book “Gone with the Wind” have long been included in the golden fund of world literature. Many phrases uttered by the main characters of this novel have become catchphrases; they are repeated over and over again, sometimes without even thinking about their original source. We will tell you about the most characteristic and memorable quotes in this article.

Novel by Margaret Mitchell

Quotes from the book “Gone with the Wind” are well known to most educated readers, as is the work itself. The novel was first published in 1936, becoming one of the most popular bestsellers in the history of American literature. In the first six months, more than one million copies were sold.

American film producers immediately wanted to film this great work. In 1939, a war drama was released, the rights to which belonged to producer David Selznick. For this he paid Mitchell 50 thousand dollars.

The plot of the work

It is impossible to tell the plot of the novel without paying attention to “Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell, which many modern readers like to repeat today.

The events of the work unfold over 12 years. From 1861 to 1873. In the spotlight Civil War in the USA between the southern agricultural and northern industrial states. The main character is young Scarlett O'Hara. She is half French, half Irish, and has the rare gift of charming men. At the same time, she believes in a happy future, no matter what. This can perhaps be described most famous quote from the book "Gone with the Wind" on English language, which belongs to the main character.

I"ll think about it tomorrow.

(I will think about it tomorrow).

Scarlett is very confident and especially wants to charm Ashley Wilkes. But then her first disappointment awaits her when she finds out that her lover is engaged to his cousin named Melanie. She seems to the main character ugly and a loser.

Therefore, the girl strives with all her might to be alone with Ashley in order to explain herself to him, being sure that after this he will immediately offer her his hand and heart. However, when Ashley listens to Scarlett's confession, to her surprise, she replies that their feelings are mutual, but he cannot break his earlier word, so he still marries Melanie.

Rhett Butler

At this moment, another key character appears in the work, who can also be characterized by a quote from volume 1 of the book “Gone with the Wind.”

To be honest, my dear, I don't care.

This is how Rhett Butler approaches life simply, who accidentally manages to overhear Scarlett’s conversation with Ashley. Everyone knows Butler as a man with a fairly tarnished reputation.

Scarlett herself decides to take revenge, so she accepts the proposal of Melanie's brother Charles Hamilton. Within two weeks she marries him, exactly the day before her lover’s wedding to Melanie.

Marriage is a pleasure for a man.

This is the attitude towards marriage that can be found in quotes from the book “Gone with the Wind.”

Civil War

The Civil War bursts into the lives of the characters in Mitchell's novel. At the very beginning, Charles dies in the southern camp, leaving Scarlett a young widow. Moreover, her husband does not even have time to take part in the battles, becoming a victim of measles. He leaves his wife his son Wade as an inheritance.

The main character was 17 years old at that time; according to the customs of that time, she was obliged to mourn for the rest of her life. Here she realizes all the horrors that war brings, which is illustrated in quotes from the book “Gone with the Wind.”

Wars are always sacred to those who have to fight them. If those who incite wars did not declare them sacred, what fool would go to war?

And here's another one:

“Should we understand you, sir, that the cause for which our heroes give their lives is not sacred to you?”

“If you get hit by a train tomorrow, does that mean the railroad company should be canonized?”

But Scarlett doesn't think her life is over. She understands that in order to move forward, she must let go of pain and suffering.

A person cannot move forward if his soul is corroded by the pain of memories.

The heroine goes to Atlantic, where her husband’s relatives live, and settles with Aunt Pitty along with Melanie. There she meets Butler again, who helps her remember her former carelessness, assuring her that all is not lost in life. The girl finally feels happy. Only the caustic jokes of Rhett, who constantly shows Scarlett attentions, haunt her. At the same time, he is categorical about marriage and, it turns out, is incredibly rich. Here are a few quotes from the book “Gone with the Wind” in Belarusian that will help you understand its essence even better.

Lepsh atrymats kulyu ў forehead, chim foolіtsu ў wives.

(It’s better to get a bullet in the forehead than to be married to a fool).

Sir, you are not a gentleman!

So, just like you, mis, nya lady.

(- Sir, you are not a gentleman!

Just like you, miss, not a lady).

I don’t care, and I don’t like people who call out, I’m sorry.

(I feel sorry for her, and I don’t like people who make me feel sorry for her).

The world they are used to is collapsing around the heroes. What until recently seemed unthinkable is now becoming accessible and possible, and the Civil War plays a significant role in this.

Life in Atlanta

After Christmas, Melanie announces that she is pregnant. She soon learns that her husband went missing at the front, which makes her already difficult pregnancy even more difficult. Most likely, he was captured.

At this time, the unprincipled Butler invites Scarlett to become his mistress, but the girl refuses.

Victory does not always go to those who go ahead.

This phrase clearly characterizes her attitude towards such relationships. At this time, the Yankees are approaching Atlanta, residents have to evacuate. But Melanie fears she won't be able to handle the move. Scarlett has to stay with her, since she promised Ashley that she would take care of her, even though deep down she was thinking about her death. It is she who delivers the baby; Melanie's son, Beau Wilkes, is born.

When Rhett learns that the birth ended successfully, he takes the girls and the child out of the besieged city on a horse and carriage. On the road, he admits that his duty forces him to fight for the Confederates, so he leaves, and Scarlett promises herself to hate him until the end of her days.

The women reach Tara. There, the main character learns that her mother has died, and her father has lost his mind because of this loss. But Scarlett has no time to grieve; she turns out to be the only one who is able to solve the problems of those close to her. She has to take care of the plantations and make all the decisions. Over time, control of Tara falls entirely into her hands. She is much more determined than the people around her, she will stop at nothing.

God is my witness, I would rather steal or kill, but I will not starve!

She has difficulty overcoming her own pride and the snobbery of those around her, who believe that hard work in the fields and housework is not for young ladies. But, having shown the will, she manages to achieve even a small harvest. The first one ends with Ashley coming to Tara.

Second volume

There are a lot of problems around the house. Scarlett simply doesn't have enough money to pay taxes on Tara. Forgetting her pride, she asks Butler for help. But in Atlanta, she finds out that Rhett is in prison, her plan has failed.

Due to lack of money and desperation, she marries Frank Kennedy. In marriage, the main character discovers an entrepreneurial spirit when she begins to manage her husband’s store, acquires a sawmill, after which you can forget about poverty and the danger of ending up on the street.

Birth of a daughter

Scarlett and Frank have a daughter, who is named Ella Lorina. One day, on the way to the sawmill, she is attacked by free blacks. Upon learning of this, Frank takes part in a Ku Klux Klan raid and is killed.

The day after the funeral of her second husband, Scarlett receives a marriage proposal from Butler. This is how it begins new life, she soon gives birth to another daughter, Bonnie Blue. Quotes from the book "Gone with the Wind" about love become some of the most poignant in the novel.

It’s good when a man is nearby, when you can snuggle up to him, feel the strength of his shoulder and know that between her and the silent horror creeping out of the darkness, there is him. Even if he is silent and only continuously looks ahead.

The ending of the novel

Even in happy marriage With Rhett, Scarlett remembers Ashley from time to time, imagining him in her husband's place.

When Butler begins to feel this, an argument ensues. They decide to spend the night in separate bedrooms. But soon a drunken Rhett takes over the main character. After this, ashamed of himself, he leaves for several weeks. And when he returns, he finds his wife pregnant. Instead of being happy, he begins to accuse her that the child is Ashley's. During the conflict, a girl falls down the stairs and has a miscarriage. And soon their daughter Bonnie dies - a 4-year-old child falls from a pony.

During her second pregnancy, Melanie dies, but Scarlett already understands that she never really loved Ashley, and now her man is Butler. She is sure that everything can be returned, but Rhett declares that he has cooled off towards her. The heroine is not going to come to terms with this. The novel ends with her thinking about how to get her love back.