Scarlett O Hara Quotes:

I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

- Linda Fairstein

source: Linda Fairstein (1997). “Final Jeopardy”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

topic: Tired, Next, Scarlett O Hara, I'm Tired

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

- Toni Braxton

topic: Broke, Scarlett O Hara

I shall play Scarlett O'Hara.

- Vivien Leigh

topic: Play, Scarlett O Hara

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Crazy, Thinking, Tomorrow, Scarlett O Hara

Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1, Hamilton Books

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Men, Scarlett O Hara

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

topic: Thinking, Way, Another Day, Get Him Back, Memorable Movie

Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

- Vivien Leigh

topic: War, Lying, Father, Happier Times, Scarlett O Hara

He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Mother, World, Roosters, Scarlett O Hara, Gallantry

Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaus. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What do you want? Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday, I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: I love you! Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me Captain Butler as long as you live.

- Clark Gable

source: "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

topic: Love, Flirting, Long, Southern Belle, Belle

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

- Ronald Reagan

source: United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

topic: Thinking, Government, Politics, Scarlett O Hara

Scarlett O'Hara didn't think she was manipulating. That's just the way she got what she wanted.

- Donna Mills

topic: Thinking, Way, Wanted, Scarlett O Hara

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

topic: Courage, Reputation, Enough, Scarlett O Hara, Rhett Butler

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

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Grace, Want, Charm, Scarlett O Hara, Rhett Butler

I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: "Gone with the Wind".

topic: Movie, Great Year, Wind, Institute, Scarlett O Hara

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Lying, Love You, Heartbreaking, Madly In Love, Scarlett O Hara

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Fighting, Land, Dying, Scarlett O Hara, Worth Fighting For

There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind...

- Ben Hecht

source: "Tell Me the Truth About Love: Memories: 1953-1969". Book by Robert Ayres Carter, Xlibris Corporation, p. 151, 2008.

topic: Dream, Book, Land, Scarlett O Hara, Cotton Fields

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

- Clark Gable

source: "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

topic: Movie, Badass, Wind, Best Film, War Movie

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Kissing, Should, Kissing And Love, Kissing Someone, Kissing You

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

topic: Weakness, Causes, Lost, Scarlett O Hara, Rhett Butler

I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Selfish, Silly, Love You, I Love You Because, Scarlett O Hara

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

- Glenn Close

topic: Wind, Gone, Dressers, Scarlett O Hara

Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.

- Norma Shearer

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Play, Roles, Butlers, Scarlett O Hara, Rhett Butler

I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.

- Leslie Bibb

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Wind, Southern, Southern Women, Scarlett O Hara

I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Husband, Long, Waiting, Scarlett O Hara, Rhett Butler

I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Needs, Care, Need You, Scarlett O Hara

Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.

- Christine Lakin

topic: Laughter, Character, Kids, Physical Comedy, Mesmerized

Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Beautiful, Mean, Heart, Scarlett O Hara, Rhett Butler

Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Crisis, Handkerchiefs, Rhett Butler, Scarlett O Hara