Quotes Page!
Hi, guys! (By the way, you don't have to read this if you just want to look at quotes) I know that this page seems like it has a lot of words on it (which it does), but if you're looking for a specific quotes, I'll give you a "Table of Contents" like thing. Individual quotes by Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley, Melanie, and Mammy are at the beginning of this page, just scroll down and look at the title. Below that is quotes by other people from the movie. (Gerald, Aunt Pittypat, Prissy, etc) Below that is quotes that were in the book, but not the movie. And finally, at the bottom, is dialogue from memorable scences from the movie. :)
Quotes by Scarlett:
"As God as my witness, as God as my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when its all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God as my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"
"Fiddle dee dee!"
"Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day!"
"Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore and don't call me sugar!
"It can't be true! Ashley loves me!"
"I've never heard of such bad taste."
"I can shoot straight, if I don't have to shoot too far."
"Oh, you do talk scandalous!"
"You're coarse, and you're conceited. And I think this conversation has gone far enough.
"Oh, if I wasn't a lady, what wouldn't I tell that varmint!"
"Fiddle dee dee!"
"Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day!"
"Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore and don't call me sugar!
"It can't be true! Ashley loves me!"
"I've never heard of such bad taste."
"I can shoot straight, if I don't have to shoot too far."
"Oh, you do talk scandalous!"
"You're coarse, and you're conceited. And I think this conversation has gone far enough.
"Oh, if I wasn't a lady, what wouldn't I tell that varmint!"
Quotes by Rhett:
"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation."
"I'm not a marrying man."
"No, I don't think I will kiss you. Although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often. And by someone who knows how."
"This is where you get your strength, the red earth of Tara."
"All we've got is cotton and slaves and.... arrogance."
"I'm very drunk and intend on getting still drunker before this evening is over."
"Observe my hands, my dear."
"I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me."
"Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you."
"I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands."
"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation."
"I'm not a marrying man."
"No, I don't think I will kiss you. Although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often. And by someone who knows how."
"This is where you get your strength, the red earth of Tara."
"All we've got is cotton and slaves and.... arrogance."
"I'm very drunk and intend on getting still drunker before this evening is over."
"Observe my hands, my dear."
"I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me."
"Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you."
"I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands."
Quotes by Ashley:
"Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were about."
"She was the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality."
"Yes, there is something. Something you love better than me although you may not know it. Tara."
"All right I'll say it. I love your courage and your stubborness. I love them so much that a moment ago I could have forgotten the best wife a man ever had. But Scarlett I'm not going to forget them!"
"She was the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality."
"Yes, there is something. Something you love better than me although you may not know it. Tara."
"All right I'll say it. I love your courage and your stubborness. I love them so much that a moment ago I could have forgotten the best wife a man ever had. But Scarlett I'm not going to forget them!"
Quotes by Melanie:
"Whatever happens, I'll love you, just as I do now, until the day I die."
"I've always admired you so. I wish I could be more like you."
"Scarlett! You killed him! I'm glad you killed him!"
"If you arrest all the men who get intoxicated in Atlanta, you must have a good many Yankees in jail, Captain. Bring him in, Captain Butler, if you can walk yourself."
"Be kind to Captain Butler. He loves you so."
"I've always admired you so. I wish I could be more like you."
"Scarlett! You killed him! I'm glad you killed him!"
"If you arrest all the men who get intoxicated in Atlanta, you must have a good many Yankees in jail, Captain. Bring him in, Captain Butler, if you can walk yourself."
"Be kind to Captain Butler. He loves you so."
Quotes by Mammy:
"It just ain't fittin."
"You know what trouble I's is talkin' bout. I's talkin' bout Mr.Ashley Wilkes. He'll be cumin' to Atlanta when he gets his leave, and you be sittin' there waitin' for him just like a spider. He belongs to miss Melanie and..."
"If you don't care what folks says about this family, I does. I has told ya and told ya that you can always tell a lady by the way she eats in front of folks like a bird, and I ain't aimin' for you to go to Mr. John Wilkerson's and eat like a field hand and gobble like a hog!"
"She says she's cumin. I don't know why she's cumin, but she's a-cumin."
"You know what trouble I's is talkin' bout. I's talkin' bout Mr.Ashley Wilkes. He'll be cumin' to Atlanta when he gets his leave, and you be sittin' there waitin' for him just like a spider. He belongs to miss Melanie and..."
"If you don't care what folks says about this family, I does. I has told ya and told ya that you can always tell a lady by the way she eats in front of folks like a bird, and I ain't aimin' for you to go to Mr. John Wilkerson's and eat like a field hand and gobble like a hog!"
"She says she's cumin. I don't know why she's cumin, but she's a-cumin."
Other Quotes:
Gerald O'Hara: "Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that Tara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing worth workin' worth fightin' for, worth dying for, because its the only thing that lasts."
Prissy: "Lawzy, we got to have a doctor. I don't know nothin' bout birthin' babies!"
Aunt Pittypat: "Oh dear, oh dear where are my smelling salts? I think I shall faint!"
Careen: "I guess things like hands and ladies don't matter so much anymore."
Suellen: "What do I care about Tara, I hate Tara."
"I hate Scarlett, she's the only thing I hate more than Tara!"
Belle Watling: (about Scarlett) "She's a mighty cold woman, prancing about Atlanta by herself. She killed her husband same as if she shot him."
Pork: "Great geeee-hossefat!"
Frank Kennedy: "She can get mad quicker than any woman I ever saw."
Uncle Henry: (to a chicken) "No more gettin so uppity, even if you is the last chicken in Atlanta."
Prissy: "Lawzy, we got to have a doctor. I don't know nothin' bout birthin' babies!"
Aunt Pittypat: "Oh dear, oh dear where are my smelling salts? I think I shall faint!"
Careen: "I guess things like hands and ladies don't matter so much anymore."
Suellen: "What do I care about Tara, I hate Tara."
"I hate Scarlett, she's the only thing I hate more than Tara!"
Belle Watling: (about Scarlett) "She's a mighty cold woman, prancing about Atlanta by herself. She killed her husband same as if she shot him."
Pork: "Great geeee-hossefat!"
Frank Kennedy: "She can get mad quicker than any woman I ever saw."
Uncle Henry: (to a chicken) "No more gettin so uppity, even if you is the last chicken in Atlanta."
Quotes from the Book that the Movie Sadly Missed:
Scarlett: "God's nightgown!"
Rhett: "Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation."
Rhett: "I said your stupid Ashley. Gentleman all-what do they know about women? What did they know about you? I know you."
Scarlett (at the very beginning of the book, before the BBQ): "I don't like Mammy Jincy's fortunes. You know she said I was going to marry a gentleman with jet-black hair and a long black moustache, and I don't like black-haired gentlemen."
Melanie (about Rhett): "I told you he was a gentleman, didn't I?"
Rhett: "What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one."
Ashley: "I do mind, very much, the loss of the beauty of the old life I loved. Scarlett, before the war, life was beautiful. There was a glamour to it, a perfection and a completeness and a symmetry to it like Grecian art."
Rhett: "Eavesdroppers often hear highly entertaining and instructive things."
Scarlett (about Rhett): "Its almost like I'm in love with him!" She thought, bewildered. "But I'm not and I just can't understand it."
Rhett (about the bonnet from Paris): "Its your bonnet," he said. "Who else could wear that shade of green? Don't you think I carried the color of your eyes in my mind?"
Melanie (about the soldiers not fighting): "Nobody's invading us and nobody's going to. And the best way to keep out invaders is to go to Virginia and beat the Yankees there. And for all this talk about the militia staying here to keep the darkies from rising-- why, it's the silliest thing I ever heard of. Why should our people rise? It's just a good excuse for cowards. I'll bet we could lick the Yankees in a month of all the militia of all the states went to Virginia. So there!"
Rhett (to Scarlett): "I've always wondered what it was about you that made me remember you, for I've known many ladies who were prettier than you and certainly more clever and, I fear, morally more upright and kind. But, somehow, I always remembered you. Even during the months since the surrender when I was in France and England and hadn't seen you or heard of you and was enjoying the society of many beautiful ladies, I always remembered you and wondered what you were doing."
Frank Kennedy (about the Yankees in Georgia): "Yes, that's the word. Dreadful."
Archie (about Melanie, to Scarlett): "Miz Wilkes is right sensible, for a woman. She 'lowed that I was alright. She 'lowed that a liar allus kept on lyin' and a thief kept on stealin' but folks don't do more'n one murder in a lifetime. And she reckoned as how anybody who'd fought for the Confederacy had wiped out anything bad they'd done. Though I don't hold that I done nothin' bad, killin' my wife..... Yes, Miz Wilkes is right sensible, for a woman..... And I'm tellin' you, the day you leases convicts is the day I quits you."
Rhett (When he is drunk and about to carry Scarlett up the stairs): "Yes, sorry because you're such a child, Scarlett. A child crying for the moon. What would a child do with the moon if it got it? And what would you do with Ashley? Yes, I'm sorry for you--sorry to see you throwing away happiness with both hands and reaching out for something that would never make you happy. I'm sorry because you are such a fool you don't know there can't ever be happiness except when like mates like. If I were dead, if Miss Melly were dead and you had your precious honorable lover, do you think you'd be happy with him? Hell, no! You would never know him, never know what he was thinking about, never understand him any more than you understand music and poetry and books or anything that isn't dollars and cents. Whereas, we, dear wife of my bosom, could have been perfectly happy if you had ever given us half a chance, for we are so much alike. We are both scoundrels, Scarlett, and nothing is beyond us when we want something. We could have been happy, for I loved you and I know you, Scarlett, down to your bones, in a way that Ashley could never know you. And he would despise you if he did know.... But no, you must go mooning all your life after a man you cannot understand. And I, my darling, will continue to moon after whores. And, I dare say we'll do better than most couples."
Rhett: "Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation."
Rhett: "I said your stupid Ashley. Gentleman all-what do they know about women? What did they know about you? I know you."
Scarlett (at the very beginning of the book, before the BBQ): "I don't like Mammy Jincy's fortunes. You know she said I was going to marry a gentleman with jet-black hair and a long black moustache, and I don't like black-haired gentlemen."
Melanie (about Rhett): "I told you he was a gentleman, didn't I?"
Rhett: "What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one."
Ashley: "I do mind, very much, the loss of the beauty of the old life I loved. Scarlett, before the war, life was beautiful. There was a glamour to it, a perfection and a completeness and a symmetry to it like Grecian art."
Rhett: "Eavesdroppers often hear highly entertaining and instructive things."
Scarlett (about Rhett): "Its almost like I'm in love with him!" She thought, bewildered. "But I'm not and I just can't understand it."
Rhett (about the bonnet from Paris): "Its your bonnet," he said. "Who else could wear that shade of green? Don't you think I carried the color of your eyes in my mind?"
Melanie (about the soldiers not fighting): "Nobody's invading us and nobody's going to. And the best way to keep out invaders is to go to Virginia and beat the Yankees there. And for all this talk about the militia staying here to keep the darkies from rising-- why, it's the silliest thing I ever heard of. Why should our people rise? It's just a good excuse for cowards. I'll bet we could lick the Yankees in a month of all the militia of all the states went to Virginia. So there!"
Rhett (to Scarlett): "I've always wondered what it was about you that made me remember you, for I've known many ladies who were prettier than you and certainly more clever and, I fear, morally more upright and kind. But, somehow, I always remembered you. Even during the months since the surrender when I was in France and England and hadn't seen you or heard of you and was enjoying the society of many beautiful ladies, I always remembered you and wondered what you were doing."
Frank Kennedy (about the Yankees in Georgia): "Yes, that's the word. Dreadful."
Archie (about Melanie, to Scarlett): "Miz Wilkes is right sensible, for a woman. She 'lowed that I was alright. She 'lowed that a liar allus kept on lyin' and a thief kept on stealin' but folks don't do more'n one murder in a lifetime. And she reckoned as how anybody who'd fought for the Confederacy had wiped out anything bad they'd done. Though I don't hold that I done nothin' bad, killin' my wife..... Yes, Miz Wilkes is right sensible, for a woman..... And I'm tellin' you, the day you leases convicts is the day I quits you."
Rhett (When he is drunk and about to carry Scarlett up the stairs): "Yes, sorry because you're such a child, Scarlett. A child crying for the moon. What would a child do with the moon if it got it? And what would you do with Ashley? Yes, I'm sorry for you--sorry to see you throwing away happiness with both hands and reaching out for something that would never make you happy. I'm sorry because you are such a fool you don't know there can't ever be happiness except when like mates like. If I were dead, if Miss Melly were dead and you had your precious honorable lover, do you think you'd be happy with him? Hell, no! You would never know him, never know what he was thinking about, never understand him any more than you understand music and poetry and books or anything that isn't dollars and cents. Whereas, we, dear wife of my bosom, could have been perfectly happy if you had ever given us half a chance, for we are so much alike. We are both scoundrels, Scarlett, and nothing is beyond us when we want something. We could have been happy, for I loved you and I know you, Scarlett, down to your bones, in a way that Ashley could never know you. And he would despise you if he did know.... But no, you must go mooning all your life after a man you cannot understand. And I, my darling, will continue to moon after whores. And, I dare say we'll do better than most couples."
***Scarlett is asking Rhett why he drives her around when she is pregnant with her second child, Ella Lorena (her child with Frank)***
"Rhett, do you really--is it to protect me that you--"
"Yes, my dear, it is my much advertised chivalry that makes me protect you." The mocking light began to dance in his black eyes and all signs of earnestness fled from his face. "And why? Because of my deep love for you, Mrs. Kennedy. Yes, I have silently hungered and thirsted for you and worshipped you from afar; but being an honorable man, like Mr. Ashley Wilkes, I have concealed it from you. You are, alas, Frank's wife and honor has forbidden my telling this to you. But even as Mr. Wilkes' honor cracks occasionally, so mine is cracking now and I reveal my secret passion and my--"
"Oh, for God's sake, hush!" interrupted Scarlett, annoyed as usual when he made her look like a conceited fool, and not caring to have Ashley and his honor become the subject of further conversation. "What was the other thing you wanted to tell me?"
"What! You change the subject when I am baring a loving but lacerated heart?"
"Rhett, do you really--is it to protect me that you--"
"Yes, my dear, it is my much advertised chivalry that makes me protect you." The mocking light began to dance in his black eyes and all signs of earnestness fled from his face. "And why? Because of my deep love for you, Mrs. Kennedy. Yes, I have silently hungered and thirsted for you and worshipped you from afar; but being an honorable man, like Mr. Ashley Wilkes, I have concealed it from you. You are, alas, Frank's wife and honor has forbidden my telling this to you. But even as Mr. Wilkes' honor cracks occasionally, so mine is cracking now and I reveal my secret passion and my--"
"Oh, for God's sake, hush!" interrupted Scarlett, annoyed as usual when he made her look like a conceited fool, and not caring to have Ashley and his honor become the subject of further conversation. "What was the other thing you wanted to tell me?"
"What! You change the subject when I am baring a loving but lacerated heart?"
***Scarlett just sold the mills to Ashley, and she is trying to understand the way he thinks. Ashley says he doesn't understand her attitude.***
"I've offended you, Scarlett, and I did not mean to. You must believe me and forgive me. There is nothing enigmatic in what I said. It is only that I believe that money which comes in certain ways seldom brings happiness."
"But you're wrong!" she cried, unable to restrain herself any longer. "Look at me! You know how my money came. You know how things were before I made my money! You remember that winter at Tara when it was so cold and we were cutting up the carpets for shoes and there wasn't enough to eat and we used to wonder how we were going to give Beau and Wade an education. You remem--"
"I remember," said Ashley tiredly, "but I'd rather forget."
"Well, you can't say any of us were happy then, can you? And look at us now! You've a nice home and a good future. And has anyone a prettier house than mine or nicer clothes or finer horses? Nobody sets as fine a table as me or gives nicer receptions and my children have everything they want. Well, how did I get the money to make it possible? Off trees? No, sir! Convicts and saloon rentals and--"
"And don't forget murdering that Yankee," said Rhett softly. "He really gave you your start." Scarlett swung on him, furious words on her lips. "And the money has made you very, very happy, hasn't it, darling?" he asked, poisonously sweet. Scarlett stopped short, her mouth open, and her eyes went swiftly to the eyes of the other three. Melanie was almost crying with embarrassment, Ashley was suddenly bleak and withdrawn and Rhett was watching her over his cigar with impersonal amusement. She started to cry out: "But of course, it's made me happy!" But somehow, she could not speak.
"I've offended you, Scarlett, and I did not mean to. You must believe me and forgive me. There is nothing enigmatic in what I said. It is only that I believe that money which comes in certain ways seldom brings happiness."
"But you're wrong!" she cried, unable to restrain herself any longer. "Look at me! You know how my money came. You know how things were before I made my money! You remember that winter at Tara when it was so cold and we were cutting up the carpets for shoes and there wasn't enough to eat and we used to wonder how we were going to give Beau and Wade an education. You remem--"
"I remember," said Ashley tiredly, "but I'd rather forget."
"Well, you can't say any of us were happy then, can you? And look at us now! You've a nice home and a good future. And has anyone a prettier house than mine or nicer clothes or finer horses? Nobody sets as fine a table as me or gives nicer receptions and my children have everything they want. Well, how did I get the money to make it possible? Off trees? No, sir! Convicts and saloon rentals and--"
"And don't forget murdering that Yankee," said Rhett softly. "He really gave you your start." Scarlett swung on him, furious words on her lips. "And the money has made you very, very happy, hasn't it, darling?" he asked, poisonously sweet. Scarlett stopped short, her mouth open, and her eyes went swiftly to the eyes of the other three. Melanie was almost crying with embarrassment, Ashley was suddenly bleak and withdrawn and Rhett was watching her over his cigar with impersonal amusement. She started to cry out: "But of course, it's made me happy!" But somehow, she could not speak.
***Scarlett & Old Miss are talking about people getting through tough times after the war, and Old Miss said that Ashley doesn't have gumption***
"Ashley is a very fine man," began Scarlett hotly.
"I never said he wasn't but he's as helpless as a turtle on his back. If the Wilkes family pulls through these hard times, it'll be Melly who pulls them through. Not Ashley."
"Melly! Lord, Grandma! What are you talking about? I've lived with Melly long enough to know she's sickly and scared and hasn't the gumption to say Boo to a goose."
"Now why on earth should anyone want to say Boo to a goose? It always sounded like a waste of time to me. She might not say Boo to a goose but she'd say Boo to the world or the Yankee government or anything else that threatened her precious Ashley or her boy or her notions of gentility. Her way isn't your way, Scarlett, or my way. It's the way your mother would have acted if she'd lived. Melly puts me in mind of your mother when she was young. . . . And maybe she'll pull the Wilkes family through."
"Oh, Melly's a well-meaning little ninny. But you are very unjust to Ashley. He's--"
"Oh, foot! Ashley was bred to read books and nothing else."
"Ashley is a very fine man," began Scarlett hotly.
"I never said he wasn't but he's as helpless as a turtle on his back. If the Wilkes family pulls through these hard times, it'll be Melly who pulls them through. Not Ashley."
"Melly! Lord, Grandma! What are you talking about? I've lived with Melly long enough to know she's sickly and scared and hasn't the gumption to say Boo to a goose."
"Now why on earth should anyone want to say Boo to a goose? It always sounded like a waste of time to me. She might not say Boo to a goose but she'd say Boo to the world or the Yankee government or anything else that threatened her precious Ashley or her boy or her notions of gentility. Her way isn't your way, Scarlett, or my way. It's the way your mother would have acted if she'd lived. Melly puts me in mind of your mother when she was young. . . . And maybe she'll pull the Wilkes family through."
"Oh, Melly's a well-meaning little ninny. But you are very unjust to Ashley. He's--"
"Oh, foot! Ashley was bred to read books and nothing else."
***Once Rhett gets out of jail, he comes to see Scarlett and see if she got the taxes.***
"Didn't you get the money for the taxes? Don't tell me the wolf is still at the door of Tara." There was a different tone in his voice.
She looked up to meet his dark eyes and caught an expression which startled and puzzled her at first, and then made her suddenly smile, a sweet and charming smile which was seldom on her face these days. What a perverse wretch he was, but how nice he could be at times! She knew now that the real reason for his call was not to tease her but to make sure she had gotten the money for which she had been so desperate. She knew now that he had hurried to her as soon as he was released, without the slightest appearance of hurry, to lend her the money if she still needed it. And yet he would torment and insult her and deny that such was his intent, should she accuse him. He was quite beyond all comprehension. Did he really care about her, more than he was willing to admit? Or did he have some other motive? Probably the latter, she thought. But who could tell? He did such strange things sometimes.
"No," she said, "the wolf isn't at the door any longer. I--I got the money."
"But not without a struggle, I'll warrant. Did you manage to restrain yourself until you got the wedding ring on your finger?" She tried not to smile at his accurate summing up of her conduct but she could not help dimpling.
"Didn't you get the money for the taxes? Don't tell me the wolf is still at the door of Tara." There was a different tone in his voice.
She looked up to meet his dark eyes and caught an expression which startled and puzzled her at first, and then made her suddenly smile, a sweet and charming smile which was seldom on her face these days. What a perverse wretch he was, but how nice he could be at times! She knew now that the real reason for his call was not to tease her but to make sure she had gotten the money for which she had been so desperate. She knew now that he had hurried to her as soon as he was released, without the slightest appearance of hurry, to lend her the money if she still needed it. And yet he would torment and insult her and deny that such was his intent, should she accuse him. He was quite beyond all comprehension. Did he really care about her, more than he was willing to admit? Or did he have some other motive? Probably the latter, she thought. But who could tell? He did such strange things sometimes.
"No," she said, "the wolf isn't at the door any longer. I--I got the money."
"But not without a struggle, I'll warrant. Did you manage to restrain yourself until you got the wedding ring on your finger?" She tried not to smile at his accurate summing up of her conduct but she could not help dimpling.
***Rhett bids for Scarlett at the bazaar, and says he will bid for her in many dances. She said she doesn't care and will dance.***
"And not wear black? I loathe funeral crepe."
"Oh, I couldn't take off mourning--Captain Butler, you must not hold me so tightly. I'll be mad at you if you do."
"And you look gorgeous when you are mad. I'll squeeze you again-- there--just to see if you will really get mad. You have no idea how charming you were that day at Twelve Oaks when you were mad and throwing things."
"Oh, please--won't you forget that?"
"No, it is one of my most priceless memories--a delicately nurtured Southern belle with her Irish up-- You are very Irish, you know."
"Oh, dear, there's the end of the music and there's Aunt Pittypat coming out of the back room. I know Mrs. Merriwether must have told her. Oh, for goodness' sakes, let's walk over and look out the window. I don't want her to catch me now. Her eyes are as big as saucers."
"And not wear black? I loathe funeral crepe."
"Oh, I couldn't take off mourning--Captain Butler, you must not hold me so tightly. I'll be mad at you if you do."
"And you look gorgeous when you are mad. I'll squeeze you again-- there--just to see if you will really get mad. You have no idea how charming you were that day at Twelve Oaks when you were mad and throwing things."
"Oh, please--won't you forget that?"
"No, it is one of my most priceless memories--a delicately nurtured Southern belle with her Irish up-- You are very Irish, you know."
"Oh, dear, there's the end of the music and there's Aunt Pittypat coming out of the back room. I know Mrs. Merriwether must have told her. Oh, for goodness' sakes, let's walk over and look out the window. I don't want her to catch me now. Her eyes are as big as saucers."
Dialogue from the Movie:
SCARLETT: "Oh Rhett! Please don't go! You can't leave me! Please! I'll never forgive you!"
RHETT: "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.
SCARLETT: "Don't hold me like that!" ***Holds her tighter***
RHETT: "Scarlett, look at me! I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman, and I've waited for you longer than I've ever waited for any woman." ***Kisses her forehead***
SCARLETT: "Let me alone!"
RHETT: "Here's a soldier of the south who loves you, Scarlett. Wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me, you're a woman who's sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett! Kiss me, kiss me... once..." ***Kisses her***
RHETT: "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.
SCARLETT: "Don't hold me like that!" ***Holds her tighter***
RHETT: "Scarlett, look at me! I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman, and I've waited for you longer than I've ever waited for any woman." ***Kisses her forehead***
SCARLETT: "Let me alone!"
RHETT: "Here's a soldier of the south who loves you, Scarlett. Wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me, you're a woman who's sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett! Kiss me, kiss me... once..." ***Kisses her***
SCARLETT: "Why don't you say it you coward, you're afraid to marry me! You'd rather live with that silly little fool who can't open her mouth to say yes and no and raise a passel of mealy mouthed brats just like her!
ASHLEY: "You musn't say unkind things about Melanie."
SCARLETT: "Who are you to tell me I musn't? You led me on... You made me believe that you wanted to marry me..."
ASHLEY: "Now Scarlett, be fair. I never at any time-"
SCARLETT: "You did, its true you did, I'll hate you until I die, I can't even think of a bad enough word to call you!" ***she slaps him, ASHLEY leaves the room, SCARLETT throws a vase over the sofa, where RHETT was found eavesdropping***
RHETT: "Has the war started?"
SCARLETT: "Sir, you should have made your prescense known."
RHETT: "In the middle of that beautiful love scene? That wouldn't have been very tactful, would it? But don't worry, your secret is safe with me."
SCARLETT: "Sir, you are no gentleman."
RHETT: "And you miss, are no lady."
SCARLETT: "Oh!?"
RHETT: "But don't think I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any charm for me."
SCARLETT: "First you take a low, common advantage of me, then you insult me!"
RHETT: "I meant it as a compliment! And I hope to see more of you when you're free of the spell of the elegant Mr.Wilkes. He doesn't strike me as half good enough for a girl of your... what was it? Your 'passion' for living?"
SCARLETT: "How dare you! You aren't fit to wipe his boot!"
RHETT: "Hahaha...and you were going to hate him for the rest of your life.. hahahahahahaha...."
ASHLEY: "You musn't say unkind things about Melanie."
SCARLETT: "Who are you to tell me I musn't? You led me on... You made me believe that you wanted to marry me..."
ASHLEY: "Now Scarlett, be fair. I never at any time-"
SCARLETT: "You did, its true you did, I'll hate you until I die, I can't even think of a bad enough word to call you!" ***she slaps him, ASHLEY leaves the room, SCARLETT throws a vase over the sofa, where RHETT was found eavesdropping***
RHETT: "Has the war started?"
SCARLETT: "Sir, you should have made your prescense known."
RHETT: "In the middle of that beautiful love scene? That wouldn't have been very tactful, would it? But don't worry, your secret is safe with me."
SCARLETT: "Sir, you are no gentleman."
RHETT: "And you miss, are no lady."
SCARLETT: "Oh!?"
RHETT: "But don't think I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any charm for me."
SCARLETT: "First you take a low, common advantage of me, then you insult me!"
RHETT: "I meant it as a compliment! And I hope to see more of you when you're free of the spell of the elegant Mr.Wilkes. He doesn't strike me as half good enough for a girl of your... what was it? Your 'passion' for living?"
SCARLETT: "How dare you! You aren't fit to wipe his boot!"
RHETT: "Hahaha...and you were going to hate him for the rest of your life.. hahahahahahaha...."
DR MEADE: "Come, gentlemen do I hear your bids? Make your offers! Don't be bashful, gentlemen!"
MAN 1: "20 dollars! 20 dollars for Ms.Maybelle Merriwether!"
MAN 2: "25 dollars for Ms. Fanny Elsing!"
DR MEADE: "Only 25 dollars to give-"
RHETT: "150 dollars in gold." ***Crowd cheers and applauds***
DR MEADE: "For what lady, sir?
RHETT: "For Mrs. Charles Hamilton." ***Crowd gasps and whispers***
DR MEADE: "For whom, sir?"
RHETT: "Mrs. Charles Hamilton."
DR MEADE: "Mrs. Hamilton is in mourning, Captain Butler. But I'm sure any of out Atlanta belles would be proud to-"
RHETT: "Dr.Meade, I said Mrs. Charles Hamilton."
DR MEADE: "She will not consider it, sir."
SCARLETT: "Oh yes I will!" ***Crowd gasps and whispers again***
BAND CONDUCTOR: "Choose your partners for the Virginia reel!"
RHETT: "You sort of shocked the Confederacy, Scarlett."
SCARLETT: "Its a little bit like blockade running, isn't it?"
RHETT: "Its worse. But I expect a very fancy profit out of it."
SCARLETT: "Oh, I don't care what you expect or what they think. I'm gonna dance and dance! Tonight I wouldn't mind dancing with Abe Lincoln himself."
MAN 1: "20 dollars! 20 dollars for Ms.Maybelle Merriwether!"
MAN 2: "25 dollars for Ms. Fanny Elsing!"
DR MEADE: "Only 25 dollars to give-"
RHETT: "150 dollars in gold." ***Crowd cheers and applauds***
DR MEADE: "For what lady, sir?
RHETT: "For Mrs. Charles Hamilton." ***Crowd gasps and whispers***
DR MEADE: "For whom, sir?"
RHETT: "Mrs. Charles Hamilton."
DR MEADE: "Mrs. Hamilton is in mourning, Captain Butler. But I'm sure any of out Atlanta belles would be proud to-"
RHETT: "Dr.Meade, I said Mrs. Charles Hamilton."
DR MEADE: "She will not consider it, sir."
SCARLETT: "Oh yes I will!" ***Crowd gasps and whispers again***
BAND CONDUCTOR: "Choose your partners for the Virginia reel!"
RHETT: "You sort of shocked the Confederacy, Scarlett."
SCARLETT: "Its a little bit like blockade running, isn't it?"
RHETT: "Its worse. But I expect a very fancy profit out of it."
SCARLETT: "Oh, I don't care what you expect or what they think. I'm gonna dance and dance! Tonight I wouldn't mind dancing with Abe Lincoln himself."
RHETT: "So, you see I shall have to marry you."
SCARLETT: "I've never heard of such bad taste."
RHETT: "Would you be more convinced if I fell to my knees?"
SCARLETT: "Turn me loose, you varmint, and get out of here!"
RHETT: "Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett. I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. But it cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have felt for you has ripened into a deeper feeling. A feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it? Can it be love?"
SCARLETT: "Get up off your knees! I don't like your common jokes!"
RHETT: "This is an honorable proposal of marriage made at what I consider a most opportune moment. I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands."
SCARLETT: "You're coarse, and you're conceited. And I think this conversation has gone far enough. Besides, I shall never marry again."
RHETT: "Oh, yes you will. And you'll marry me."
SCARLETT: "You... you? I don't love you. And I don't like being married."
RHETT: "Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?"
SCARLETT: "Marriage fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men you mean."
RHETT: "Hahahah...
SCARLETT: "Hush up, do you want them to hear you outside?"
RHETT: "You've been married to a boy and an old man. Why not try a husband of the right age? With a way with women?"
SCARLETT: "You're a fool, Rhett Butler. When you know that I shall always love another man..." ***RHETT pulls her close***
RHETT: "Stop it Scarlett, do you hear me? Stop it. No more of that talk..." ***RHETT kisses her***
SCARLETT: "I've never heard of such bad taste."
RHETT: "Would you be more convinced if I fell to my knees?"
SCARLETT: "Turn me loose, you varmint, and get out of here!"
RHETT: "Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett. I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. But it cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have felt for you has ripened into a deeper feeling. A feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it? Can it be love?"
SCARLETT: "Get up off your knees! I don't like your common jokes!"
RHETT: "This is an honorable proposal of marriage made at what I consider a most opportune moment. I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands."
SCARLETT: "You're coarse, and you're conceited. And I think this conversation has gone far enough. Besides, I shall never marry again."
RHETT: "Oh, yes you will. And you'll marry me."
SCARLETT: "You... you? I don't love you. And I don't like being married."
RHETT: "Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?"
SCARLETT: "Marriage fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men you mean."
RHETT: "Hahahah...
SCARLETT: "Hush up, do you want them to hear you outside?"
RHETT: "You've been married to a boy and an old man. Why not try a husband of the right age? With a way with women?"
SCARLETT: "You're a fool, Rhett Butler. When you know that I shall always love another man..." ***RHETT pulls her close***
RHETT: "Stop it Scarlett, do you hear me? Stop it. No more of that talk..." ***RHETT kisses her***
SCARLETT: "What are you doing?"
RHETT: "I'm leaving you, my dear. All you need now is a divorce and your dreams of Ashley can come true."
SCARLETT: "Oh, no! No, you're wrong, terribly wrong! I don't want a divorce. Oh Rhett, but I knew tonight, when I... when I knew I loved you, I ran home to tell you, oh darling, darling!"
RHETT: "Please don't go on with this, Leave us some dignity to remember out of our marriage. Spare us this last."
SCARLETT: "This last? Oh Rhett, do listen to me, I must have loved you for years, only I was such a stupid fool, I didn't know it. Please believe me, you must care! Melly said you did."
RHETT: "I believe you. What about Ashley Wilkes?"
SCARLETT: "I... I never really loved Ashley."
RHETT: "You certainly gave a good imitation of it, up till this morning. No Scarlett, I tried everything. If you'd only met me half way, even when I came back from London."
SCARLETT: "I was so glad to see you. I was, Rhett, but you were so nasty."
RHETT: "And then when you were sick, it was all my fault... I hoped against hope that you'd call for me, but you didn't."
SCARLETT: "I wanted you. I wanted you desperately but I didn't think you wanted me."
RHETT: "It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything."
SCARLETT: "Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don't say that. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything."
RHETT: "My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, 'I'm sorry,' all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief."
SCARLETT: "Rhett! Rhett, where are you going?"
RHETT: "I'm going back to Charleston, back where I belong."
SCARLETT: "Please, please take me with you!"
RHETT: No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about?
SCARLETT: No! I only know that I love you.
RHETT: That's your misfortune. *****RHETT walks down the stairs, towards the door*****
SCARLETT: Oh, Rhett! Rhett! Rhett, Rhett! *****SCARLETT runs after him and catches him as he's walking out the door*****
SCARLETT: Rhett... if you go, where shall I go, what shall I do?
SCARLETT: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. *****RHETT walks out of the house, into the fog. Scarlett is at the door, crying*****
SCARLETT: I can't let him go. I can't. There must be some way to bring him back. Oh, I can't think about this now! I'll go crazy if I do! I'll think about it tomorrow. *****SCARLETT walks towards the stairs*****
SCARLETT:But I must think about it! I must think about it! What is there to do? What is there that matters?
GERALD: (in Scarlett's head) Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara that Tara doesn't mean anything to you? Why land is the only thing that matters, its the only thing that lasts.
ASHLEY: (in Scarlett's head) Something you love better than me, though you may not know it. Tara.
RHETT: (in Scarlett's head) This is where you get your strength, the red earth of Tara.
GERALD, ASHLEY, and RHETT: (in Scarlett's head) Tara! Tara! Tara!
SCARLETT: Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day!
RHETT: "I'm leaving you, my dear. All you need now is a divorce and your dreams of Ashley can come true."
SCARLETT: "Oh, no! No, you're wrong, terribly wrong! I don't want a divorce. Oh Rhett, but I knew tonight, when I... when I knew I loved you, I ran home to tell you, oh darling, darling!"
RHETT: "Please don't go on with this, Leave us some dignity to remember out of our marriage. Spare us this last."
SCARLETT: "This last? Oh Rhett, do listen to me, I must have loved you for years, only I was such a stupid fool, I didn't know it. Please believe me, you must care! Melly said you did."
RHETT: "I believe you. What about Ashley Wilkes?"
SCARLETT: "I... I never really loved Ashley."
RHETT: "You certainly gave a good imitation of it, up till this morning. No Scarlett, I tried everything. If you'd only met me half way, even when I came back from London."
SCARLETT: "I was so glad to see you. I was, Rhett, but you were so nasty."
RHETT: "And then when you were sick, it was all my fault... I hoped against hope that you'd call for me, but you didn't."
SCARLETT: "I wanted you. I wanted you desperately but I didn't think you wanted me."
RHETT: "It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything."
SCARLETT: "Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don't say that. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything."
RHETT: "My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, 'I'm sorry,' all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief."
SCARLETT: "Rhett! Rhett, where are you going?"
RHETT: "I'm going back to Charleston, back where I belong."
SCARLETT: "Please, please take me with you!"
RHETT: No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about?
SCARLETT: No! I only know that I love you.
RHETT: That's your misfortune. *****RHETT walks down the stairs, towards the door*****
SCARLETT: Oh, Rhett! Rhett! Rhett, Rhett! *****SCARLETT runs after him and catches him as he's walking out the door*****
SCARLETT: Rhett... if you go, where shall I go, what shall I do?
SCARLETT: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. *****RHETT walks out of the house, into the fog. Scarlett is at the door, crying*****
SCARLETT: I can't let him go. I can't. There must be some way to bring him back. Oh, I can't think about this now! I'll go crazy if I do! I'll think about it tomorrow. *****SCARLETT walks towards the stairs*****
SCARLETT:But I must think about it! I must think about it! What is there to do? What is there that matters?
GERALD: (in Scarlett's head) Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara that Tara doesn't mean anything to you? Why land is the only thing that matters, its the only thing that lasts.
ASHLEY: (in Scarlett's head) Something you love better than me, though you may not know it. Tara.
RHETT: (in Scarlett's head) This is where you get your strength, the red earth of Tara.
GERALD, ASHLEY, and RHETT: (in Scarlett's head) Tara! Tara! Tara!
SCARLETT: Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day!