Ashley Wilkes Quotes:

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: 1936 Ashley Wilkes. Gone with the Wind, ch.31.

topic: Military, Hero, Fighting, Ashley Wilkes

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

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

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.338, Hamilton Books

topic: Civilization, People, Brain, Ashley Wilkes

I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.

- Margaret Mitchell

topic: Heart, Reality, Imagination, Facing Reality, Ashley Wilkes

He gives me a kiss that barely touches my lips – it means nothing or everything. After he’s gone, I think, Happy birthday to me. Jack says, ‘That was the guy?’ ‘That was him.’ Jake shakes his head. ‘What?’ ‘He’s not for you,’ he says. I say, ‘How do you know?’ but what I mean is, How do you know? ‘He’s like Ashley Wilkes,’ he says. ‘Any one of these guys is Rhett-ier than he is.’ Again, I ask my benignly inflected, ‘How do you know?’ ‘How do I know?’ he says, tackling me into a bear hug. ‘How do I know? I know, that’s how I know.

- Melissa Bank

topic: Mean, Kissing, Thinking, Bear Hugs, Ashley

Ser eyes met his, hers naked with pleading, his remote as mountain lakes under gray skies. She saw in them defeat of her wild dream, her mad desires.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: "Gone with the Wind".

topic: Dream, Eye, Mad, Wild Dreams, Ashley Wilkes

His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

- Margaret Mitchell

source: Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.891, 谷月社

topic: Eye, Quiet Moments, Lost Youth, Ashley Wilkes