Margaret Mitchell Quotes

“You're Ma's own blood son, but did she take on that time Tony Fontaine shot you in the leg? No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony's aim. Said she guessed the licker was spoiling his marksmanship.”

“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”

“Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point”

“Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.”

“Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are”

“Mia: I was sixteen when I first realized my mom was more concerned about my appearance than I was… I’ll be talking to my mom and realize she hasn’t heard a word because she’s studying my face to see if the foundation I’m using is a good match for my skin tone.”

“Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one traced descent from the shark or the wolf was immaterial even in morals. This matter had been discussed for ages without scientific result. La Fontaine and other fabulists maintained that the wolf, even in morals, stood higher than man; and in view of the late civil war, Adams had doubts of his own on the facts of moral evolution:”

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

“It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.”

“Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.”