(1900 - 1949) became the famous novel “Gone with the Wind,” on which she worked for more than 10 years. The book takes place primarily in the slave state of Georgia and chronologically covers Civil War in the United States, as well as the Reconstruction that followed. It is against the backdrop of these events that the main action of the work unfolds. main character“Gone with the Wind,” Scarlett O’Hara, became a kind of embodiment of the American dream and the image of a woman from the “good old South” (for which the writer was accused of idealizing the Confederacy and mythologizing the old order).

After its publication, the novel was a resounding success - in the United States alone, more than 1 million copies were sold in the first six months. In 1937, Margaret Mitchell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for it. And 2 years later, Victor Fleming appeared on the screens, winning 8 Oscars and setting an absolute record at that time for the number of gold statuettes received.

We have selected 15 quotes from the novel “Gone with the Wind”:

“It’s not very pleasant to go hungry,” he said.
“I know this because I was hungry, but I’m not afraid of hunger.” I am afraid of a life devoid of the leisurely beauty of our world, which no longer exists.

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

You cannot understand me because you do not know fear. You have a heart, you are completely devoid of imagination, and I envy you. You are not afraid of meeting reality, and you will not run from it, like me.

For the first time in her life, she met a man who was stronger than her, a man whom she could neither intimidate nor break, and who could intimidate and break her.

If this burden falls to me, then it is up to me.

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 above all, she learned the art of hiding a sharp and observant mind from men, masking it with an innocently simple-minded expression, like a child’s.

It seems to you that if you said: “I’m very sorry,” all the mistakes and all the pain of the past years can be crossed out, erased from memory, that all the poison will go away from old wounds...

Influence is everything, and issues of guilt or innocence are of purely academic interest.

Well, who would have thought that of all people, it would be Rhett who would be so openly, so shamelessly proud of his paternity?

She looked through Rhett's eyes at how not a woman, but a legend passed away from life - a meek, inconspicuous, but unbending woman, to whom the South bequeathed to keep her hearth during the war and in whose proud, but loving hugs he returned after defeat.

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.

At times, Rhett behaved simply monstrously. In fact, almost always.

My grandfather on the Butler side was a pirate. The old gentleman was mostly drunk, and when he got drunk, he forgot that he had served as a captain in the navy, and began to remember things that made his children's hair stand on end.

Will Ashley be able to bear it all? I can do it. I can handle anything. And he won't be able to - he won't be able to bear anything without her.

I thought: Miss O'Hara is an extraordinary person. She knows what she wants and is not afraid to either say it openly or...throw a vase.

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.

And the most important thing - no matter what the conversation is about - never say what you really think, remembering that they never do it either.

They don’t talk about anything anymore, Scarlett thought. - About nothing but war. All this war. And they will not talk about anything except war. No, they won’t until death.

Never mix cards with whiskey unless you have imbibed Irish moonshine with your mother's milk.

Life doesn't have to give us what we expect. We must take what it gives and be grateful for the fact that it is so, and not worse.

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.

Perhaps fifteen years will pass, and the women of the South, with bitterness forever frozen in their eyes, will still look back, resurrecting in their memory times that have sunk into oblivion, men who have sunk into oblivion, raising from the bottom of their souls fruitlessly burning memories in order to carry with pride and dignity your poverty. But Scarlett won't look back.

She allowed herself the luxury that she had long dreamed of - the luxury of doing as she wanted and telling everyone who didn't like it to hell.

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

Wade loved his mother very much - almost as much as he was afraid - and at the thought of her being carried on a black hearse drawn by black horses with feathers on their heads, his little chest was bursting with pain, so that it was even difficult for him breathe.

Your father was a hero, Wade. He married your mother, right? Well, this is already sufficient proof of his heroism.

Land is the only thing in the world that has value.

She picked up her skirts and ran. But she didn't run out of fear. She ran because Rhett's arms were waiting for her at the end of the street.

She had failed to understand either of the two men she loved, and now she had lost both. Somewhere in her mind there was a thought that if she had understood Ashley, she would never have loved him, but if she had understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

No one proves his truthfulness more passionately than a liar, his courage like a coward, his politeness like a badly behaved person, his unblemished honor like a scumbag.

I have never been one of those who patiently collect the broken pieces, glue them together, and then tell myself that the repaired thing is no worse than the new one. What is broken is broken. And I’d rather remember how it looked when it was whole than glue it together, and then see the cracks for the rest of my life.

It happened that Frank sighed heavily, thinking that he had caught a tropical bird, which was all fire and sparkling colors, whereas he would probably have been quite satisfied with an ordinary chicken.

Ashley thought that he had truly never 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.

The collection includes sayings, sayings, aphorisms, phrases and Quotes from the book “Gone with the Wind”, as well as from the film of the same name. Gone with the Wind - famous novel, by American writer Margaret Mitchell, takes place in the southern United States in the 1860s. Heroes: Scarlett O'Hara, Rhett Butler, Ashley Wilkes, Charles Hamilton, Melanie Hamilton Wilkes, Suellen and Karrin, Bonnie Blue Butler, Ella Lorina Kennedy, Wade Hampton, Hamilton, Bo (Beauregard) Wilkes, Frank Kennedy.

• 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.
• ...and the flutter of her eyelashes sealed his fate.
• I am offended in my best feelings and deeply disappointed that you were after my money, and not at all my irresistible person.
• 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 this... You need to retain the ability to fear something... just like the ability to love.
• I shouldn't do anything that might earn him contempt. He should respect me, even... even if he doesn't love me anymore.
• Bonnie wrinkled her snub nose and fidgeted, freeing herself from his embrace.
• You like me, Scarlett, admit it.
• You were honored to grace the Whites' Christmas table.
• Damn it, Scarlett, don't be a goose. How would I know about Ashley, standing up to my butt in the mud in the trenches?
• Politeness does not interfere even in grief.
• If only God would send your little lying little soul to hell forever!
• Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. As long as I know you, you never have a handkerchief in difficult moments of your life.
• Pride has an excellent taste, especially when the crust is crispy and even covered with glaze.
• 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.
• You'll have this baby, Scarlett, even if I have to handcuff you for the next nine months.
• Wars are always sacred to those who have to fight them.
• Your father was a hero, Wade. He married your mother, right? Well, this is already sufficient proof of his heroism.
• For the first time in her life, she met a man who was stronger than her, a man whom she could neither intimidate nor break, and who could intimidate and break her.
• Will Ashley be able to bear it all? I can do it. I can handle anything. And he won't be able to - he won't be able to bear anything without her.
• There will always be fifty witnesses to prove that a Southerner was where he was not.
• According to the European code of etiquette, it is bad form and very bad taste when a husband and wife love each other. Marry for convenience, and love for pleasure.
• You are just like a thief who is caught red-handed and who does not regret what he stole at all, he is very, very sorry that he will have to go to prison for it.
• It happened that Frank sighed heavily, thinking that he had caught a tropical bird, which was all fire and sparkling colors, whereas he would probably have been quite satisfied with an ordinary chicken.
• Grandfather Merryweather and Uncle Henry Hamilton shamelessly declared that they had spent the evening in Belle Watling's brothel, and when Captain Jeffery irritably remarked that they were too old for such adventures, they almost attacked him with their fists.
• Scarlett, has it ever occurred to you that even the most immortal love can wear out? So mine got worn out - in the fight with Ashley Wilkes and your crazy stubbornness...
• Dear Scarlett! You are not helpless! A man so selfish and so determined will never find himself helpless in any situation.
• Strong people do not like witnesses to their weakness.
• Her burden is her burden, and that means it should be up to her shoulder.
• Did it ever occur to you that I loved you as only a man can love a woman? And if you would only allow me, I would love you so tenderly, so carefully, as no man has ever loved.
• If you don't do anything wrong, it's because you didn't get the chance, and people probably don't understand that.
• They told the truth about you. You are not a gentleman!
• If the flag does not hold, it must be nailed to the mast.
• Why do you think you're worth three hundred dollars? Most women don't charge that much.
• It looks like I told you God knows how many stupid things at one time!
• I have never desired a woman so much that I would marry her.
• In my opinion, eating delicious food “and stuff like that” is one of the most enjoyable pastimes in the world.
• Women, in my opinion, can do everything in the world, and they don’t need any man, except to make children. And as for this, really, not a single woman, if she is in her right mind, will have a child of her own free will.
• Having sincere respect for people who received a good education, he, however, did not suffer at all from the lack of his own.
• Why bother yourself with what you can’t get back - you need to think about what else can be changed.
• Tears can be useful when there is a man nearby from whom you need to achieve something.
• I swear to God, there will only be two of us in my bed tonight.
• She barely heard what he said. She only knew that she could no longer bear the sound of his voice, which was devoid of love.
• Of course, it's scary to die of hunger in your sleep after eating a seven-course dinner, including that huge crab.
• You have much more charm than is allowed by law.
• Better hold on to your proven weapons - smiles, eyes, vases and the like.
• But Rhett, I don't love you.
• People tend to care more about those who give them trouble than about everyone else.
• Don't waste your time, it's the stuff life is made of.
• Melanie is not as strong as you. She was never particularly strong at all. She had only one thing - this heart...
• I won't think about it now. I'll think about it tomorrow.
• Mr. Butler, who calmly endured the antics of his little mistress when she pulled his tail, or allowed himself to endlessly inspect his hooves, believed that the Creator did not create him in order to carry his fat carcass over the crossbar.
• I feel sorry for her, and I don’t like people who make me feel sorry for her.
• You can earn no less from the collapse of civilization than from creating it.
• 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. Ashley Wilkes
• My grandfather on the Butler side was a pirate. The old gentleman was mostly drunk, and when he got drunk, he forgot that he had served as a captain in the navy, and began to remember things that made his children's hair stand on end.
• We live in a free country, and everyone has the right to be a scoundrel if he likes.
• I'd like to worry about what you're doing and where you're going, but I can't. My dear, I don't care about it now.
• You can probably paint over a leopard’s spots, but no matter how much you paint them, it will still remain a leopard.
• I feel sorry for her, and I don’t like people who make me feel sorry for her. Stuart Tarleton
• A real lady doesn't show off her breasts until lunchtime. Mommy
• Mrs. Merryweather was reluctant to admit that she had misjudged the man, but being an honest woman, she said that there was certainly something good in a man who loved his child so much.
• Don't yell - wait for your time with a smile.
• Madam, you are not worth three hundred dollars.
• There is no such person whom she could not conquer if she wanted.
• It's better to get a bullet in the forehead than to be married to a fool - Rhett Butler.
• Well, who would have thought that of all people, it would be Rhett who would be so openly, so shamelessly proud of his paternity?
• Beauty does not make a woman a lady, and a dress does not make a real lady.
• He simply showed polite interest in what others were giving their hearts to.
• When you go all the way down, the road can only lead up.
• She just didn’t understand how this man always managed to piss everyone off.
• 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 what she will return.
• Did the noble Ashley dare to kiss you at the risk of destroying his immortal soul?
• Life is enough like a nightmare during the day that they also torment me at night!
• Victory does not always go to those who go ahead.
• It seems to the Zhentmuns that they need quiet, little fools who have no more appetite and brains than birds. It seems to me that not a single Zhentmoon will propose to a girl if he notices that she understands more than him about something. Mommy
• In my opinion, you still remain a child. After all, only a child can be so stubborn and so insensitive.
• If I was once strong, it was only because she stood behind me, and ... all the strength I had went away with her.
• Why don't you marry a great guy? young man with a bad reputation and ability to treat women?
• To be honest my darling I don't give a damn
• Why is the memory of the heart weaker than the memory of the stomach?
• If my husband ever decides to write such nonsense to me, he will get his ass from me!
• Really, Scarlett, I can’t spend my whole life chasing you around, waiting to squeeze in between two husbands!
• If she had understood Ashley, she would never have loved him, but if she had understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.
• It's just that girls are more trouble than boys, and people tend to worry more about those who give them trouble than about others.
• Food! Food! Why is the memory of the heart weaker than the memory of the stomach?
• Tell me you'll marry me when I get back, or I swear to God I won't go anywhere. I will stay here and every evening I will appear with a guitar under your window and sing serenades at the top of my voice, and I will compromise you so much that you will have to marry me to save your reputation.
• Gerald was used to having his gifts accepted with grateful kisses and applause.
• There is too much nobility in her for her to believe that those she loves lack nobility.
• You are so cruel to those who love you, Scarlett. You accept love and hold it like a whip over a person's head.
• Death, taxes, childbirth - neither one nor the other, nor the third ever happens on time.
• You accept love and hold it like a whip over a person's head.
• Thank you for the crumbs from your table, Mrs. Bogachka.
• At times, Rhett behaved simply monstrously. In fact, almost always.
• That's just what we Southerners are: we can't help but side with a lost cause.
• Memories are a precious thing.
• You'll break Mommy's heart, and a heart like hers is too valuable to take and break.
• 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?
• You have an unusually disgusting ability to mock decency, turning it into impenetrable stupidity!
• The war would be a wonderful picnic if it weren't for lice and dysentery.
• Wade loved his mother very much - almost as much as he was afraid - and at the thought of her being carried on a black hearse drawn by black horses with feathers on their heads, his little chest was bursting with pain, so that it was even difficult for him breathe.
• Influence is everything, and issues of guilt or innocence are of purely academic interest.
• A person cannot move forward if his soul is corroded by the pain of memories.
• Was your conscience not tormenting you too much when you were about to part with this treasure... mmm... for three hundred dollars?
• Marriage is a pleasure for a man.
• I behaved so lowly, and he just died.
• Bonnie was not like you - she loved me, and I was happy to give her all the love that you didn’t need... When she died, everything went with her.
• I don't need you to save me. I can take care of myself, merci. Scarlett
• God is my witness, I would rather steal or kill, but I will not starve!
• I will think about it tomorrow
• “I’ll think about all this tomorrow, in Tara. Then I can. Tomorrow I'll find a way to get Rhett back. After all, tomorrow will be another day.”

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Quotes from the book "Gone with the Wind"

Marry for convenience, and love for pleasure. Rhett Butler

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. Scarlett O'Hara

War is not a triumphal procession, but suffering and dirt! Ashley Wilkes

The Right Cause did not seem sacred to her, and war - something sublime. For her, it was something annoyingly intruding into life, costing a lot of money, senselessly causing death and making difficult to access that which delights existence.

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. Rhett Butler

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

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.

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. Rhett Butler

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

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

You were born to be someone's wife. So why not mine? Rhett Butler

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. Rhett Butler

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. Rhett Butler

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

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.

However, real ladies are rarely, in my opinion, attractive. Rhett Butler

Gentlemen don't like women who think too independently.

To survive difficult years, the family must face fate with a united front.

If I were his wife, with me he would become completely different!
- This is it, do you think so? You don't know men well.

You see, I am so poorly brought up that I am proud of my beautiful wife.

Men, if you dig deeper, do not have common sense.

It was a stunning thought - that a woman could do business just as well as a man, or even better.

Go away! Get away from me! Go away, do you hear? I don't want to see you anymore. Never. I will be happy if you are torn apart by a shell! Into thousands of pieces! I…
- Don't bother yourself with details. Your main idea is clear to me.

Do you like me, Scarlett, admit it?
“Well, sometimes, a little,” she said carefully. - When you're not acting like a creep.
“But it seems to me that you like me precisely because I’m a bastard.”

I won't let you kiss me either.
- Why then do you stick out your lips so funny?

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. Rhett Butler

If this burden falls to me, then it is up to me.

My little cat, I've already been to the devil, and he turned out to be incredibly boring. I won’t go to him again, even to please you. Rhett Butler

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

Everything has its turn. Hard times don't last forever.

Bad is the person and bad is the people who sit and shed tears just because life is not turning out the way they would like.

You will either make money in a manner unsuitable for a lady and receive a cold reception everywhere, or you will be poor and noble, but will gain a lot of friends.

If you are trying to get something from a man, don’t tell him everything at once, like you are now telling me. Try to be more dangerous, more seductive. This brings better results. Rhett Butler

Tears can be useful when there is a man nearby from whom you need to achieve something.

Never miss an opportunity to experience something new. It broadens your horizons. With

And the flutter of her eyelashes decided his fate.

Strong people do not like witnesses to their weakness.

I want to possess you - I have never waited for a single woman as much as you, and I have never waited for one for so long. Rhett Butler

Do I really mean that much to you? - In general, yes. After all, I invested so much money in you - I wouldn’t want to lose it. Rhett Butler

Why do I need all this if I can’t have who I want? Scarlett O'Hara

Somewhere on the steep, winding road along which she had been wandering for the last four years, this girl with her perfumed dresses and ballroom slippers quietly got lost, leaving in her place a young woman with a hard look in slightly slanted green eyes, counting every penny, not disdaining any menial task , a woman who had lost everything except the indestructible red earth on which she stood among the rubble.

Nothing in the whole world can cripple us, but we cripple ourselves - we sigh for what we no longer have, and think too often about the past.

Scarlett: For that matter, I'd rather kiss a pig.
Rhett: There is no accounting for taste.

Happiness is possible only where similar people love each other.

Hardships either trim people or break them.

To be different from others... is a sin that no society forgives. Dare to be different from others - and you will be anathematized!

If you don't do anything wrong, it's because you didn't get the chance.

Death, taxes and the birth of children all fall upon us at the most inopportune times.

Tomorrow will be a completely different day.

You are like that thief who regrets not what he did, but the fact that he went to prison. Rhett Butler

I don't need you to save me. I can take care of myself, merci.
- Don't say that, Scarlett. Think that way if you like, but never, ever say that to a man.

Really, Scarlett, I can’t spend my whole life chasing you around, waiting to squeeze in between two husbands!

For some reason, most people cannot understand that you can earn no less money from the collapse of civilization than from creating it.

You can get by very well without a good reputation, provided you have money and enough courage.

Deceiving yourself is the lot of weak natures.

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

Sir, you are not a gentleman,” she snapped.
“A very subtle observation,” he remarked cheerfully. - Just like you, miss, not a lady.

... and he said that he would prefer a bullet in the forehead than a fool for a wife.

For a marriage to be happy, husband and wife must be cut from the same cloth.

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. Scarlett O'Hara

Why does a girl have to seem like a fool in order to catch her groom? Scarlett O'Hara

I will think about what will happen tomorrow tomorrow. Scarlett O'Hara

She had failed to understand either of the two men she loved, and now she had lost both. Somewhere in her mind there was a thought that if she had understood Ashley, she would never have loved him, but if she had understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

Why bother yourself with what you can’t get back - you need to think about what else you can change

American writer Margaret Mitchell was born on November 8, 1900. The work of her whole life (and de facto her only major work) was the famous novel “ gone With the Wind", on which she worked for more than 10 years. The book is set primarily in the slave state of Georgia and chronologically covers the Civil War between the North and South, as well as the Reconstruction that followed.

It is against the backdrop of these events that the main action of the book unfolds. The main character of Gone with the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara, became a kind of embodiment of the American dream and the image of a woman from the “good old South.” Mitchell was accused of idealizing the Confederacy and mythologizing the old order.

Nevertheless, after its publication, the writer’s novel was a resounding success - in the United States alone, more than 1 million copies were sold in the first six months. Margaret Mitchell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1937. And 2 years later, Victor Fleming’s film of the same name was released, which won 8 Oscar awards, thus setting an absolute record at that time for the number of gold statuettes received.

We have selected 15 quotes from the novel “Gone with the Wind”:

1. “I won’t think about it today, I’ll think about it tomorrow.”

2. “- I love you.
“This is your problem.”

3. “Death, taxes, childbirth. Neither one, nor the other, nor the third is ever on time.”

4. “Life doesn’t have to give us what we expect. We must take what it gives and be grateful for the fact that it is so, and not worse.”

5. “Only after losing your so-called “reputation” do you begin to understand what a burden this is and how good the freedom acquired at such a price is.”

6. “It’s better to get a bullet in the forehead than to be married to a fool.”

7. “What a heavy burden this is - modesty and delicacy.”

8. “For a happy marriage, love alone is not enough.”

9. “Tears can be useful when there is a man nearby from whom you need to achieve something.”

10. “If I was ever strong, it was because she stood behind me.”

11. “You can’t be a lady without money.”

12. “Do I really mean that much to you? - In general, yes. After all, I invested so much money in you - I wouldn’t want to lose it.”

13. “If I want something, I take it, so I don’t have to fight angels or demons.”

14. “It’s easy to recognize a real lady: she doesn’t eat anything.”

15. “Everything has its turn. Hard times are not forever.”