More - Margaret Mitchell Quotes

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Margaret Mitchell

 American Novelist Charm

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Margaret Mitchell

 American Novelist

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

Margaret Mitchell

 American Novelist Obligation

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them

Margaret Mitchell

 Death

My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business

Margaret Mitchell

 Business

The history of the versions is a history of doctrine and dispute.

Margaret Mitchell

 Doctrine

I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

Margaret Mitchell

 Fools And Foolishness

[The house Rhett Butler built for Scarlett] could have been in Omaha so little does it resemble any dwelling in the Atlanta of the Reconstruction period.

Margaret Mitchell

 

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Margaret Mitchell

 American Novelist Freedom

There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

Margaret Mitchell

 American Novelist