Katie Scarlett O’Hara is a fictional character and the protagonist in Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and in the later film of the same name, where she is portrayed by Vivien Leigh. Profoundly inspirational Scarlett O’Hara quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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Famous Scarlett O’Hara Quotes
Well, if you think I’ll marry you just to pay for the bonnet I won’t. Scarlett O’Hara
I loved something I made up, something that’s just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn’t see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes and not him at all. Margaret Mitchell
I can shoot straight, if I don’t have to shoot too far. Scarlett O’Hara
Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman’s lot. It was a man’s world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving. Margaret Mitchell
Great balls of fire. Don’t bother me anymore, and don’t call me sugar. Scarlett O’Hara
How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed! Margaret Mitchell
If I said I was madly in love with you you’d know I was lying. Scarlett O’Hara
She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires. Margaret Mitchell
I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn’t see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes and not him at all. Scarlett O’Hara
She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers. Margaret Mitchell
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate. Scarlett O’Hara
She couldn’t survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern Margaret Mitchell
I can’t think about that right now. If I do, I’ll go crazy. I’ll think about that tomorrow. Scarlett O’Hara
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
You’re a conceited, blackhearted varmint Rhett Butler. I don’t know why I let come and see me. Scarlett O’Hara
Fiddlesticks is Scarlett O’Hara’s way of saying Fuck this shit. Mary Norris
No woman would want a child of a cad like you. I wish for anybody’s child but yours. Scarlett O’Hara
To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O’Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her. Margaret Mitchell
As God is my witness, as God is my witness they’re are 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 is my witness I’ll never be hungry again. Scarlett O’Hara
War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged. Margaret Mitchell
Marriage, fun? Fiddle dee dee. Fun for men you mean. Scarlett O’Hara
You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate, Ellen told her daughter. You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls. Margaret Mitchell
I’ll think about that tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day. Scarlett O’Hara
Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling, light footed strangers, these proud fools who took pride in something they had lost, seeming to be proud that they had lost it. Margaret Mitchell
What a cool liar you are, Melly! Scarlett O’Hara
She raised her chin and her pale, black-fringed eyes sparkled in the moonlight. Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift. She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen year old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate. Margaret Mitchell
After all, tomorrow is another day! Scarlett O’Hara
I love you, Scarlett, because we are so much alike, renegades, both of us, dear, and selfish rascals. Neither of us cares a rap if the whole world goes to pot, so long as we are safe and comfortable. Margaret Mitchell
Ashley Wilkes She’s part of my blood and we understand each other.
One of the greatest compliments my husband ever said to me was that I had the spirit and strength of a Scarlett O’Hara. Kailin Gow
My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore. Scarlett O’Hara
Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid. Margaret Mitchell
You’d rather live with that silly little fool who can’t open her mouth except to say yes or no and raise a passel of mealy mouthed brats just like her. Scarlett O’Hara
I have never been the fiddle dee dee, carefree Scarlett O’Hara his fantasies imagined. I’m more of the Civil War version tired, hard, and determined. Jennifer Harrison
This war talk is spoiling the fun at every party this spring. Scarlett O’Hara
And she understood. She would have done the same. She understood, too, why she’d been wrong to offer Ballyhara as a substitute for land he’d farmed all his life. It made all his work meaningless, and the work of his sons, his brothers, his father, his father’s father. Alexandra Ripley
Now isn’t this better than sitting at a table? A girl hasn’t got but two sides to her at the table. Scarlett O’Hara
Scarlett O’Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure. Alexandra Ripley
You led me on you made me believe you wanted to marry me. Scarlett O’Hara
As to why I have made no further advances, he pursued blandly, as though she had not signified that the conversation was at an end, I am waiting for you to grow up a little more. You see, it wouldn’t be much fun for me to kiss you now and I’m quite selfish about my pleasures. I never fancied kissing children. Margaret Mitchell
I’d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it. Scarlett O’Hara
Dear Scarlett! You aren’t helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. Margaret Mitchell
If he’s forgotten me, I’ll make him remember me. I’ll make him want me again. Scarlett O’Hara
I kept on loving the pretty clothes and not him at all. Margaret Mitchell
He never really existed at all, except in my imagination. Scarlett O’Hara
After all, tomorrow is another day! Margaret Mitchell
I’ll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Scarlett O’Hara
Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. Margaret Mitchell
There was nothing else she did have, nothing but this red land, this land she had been willing to throw away like a torn handkerchief only a few minutes before. Now, it was dear to her again and she wondered dully what madness had possessed her to hold it so lightly. Scarlett O’Hara
And apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible. Margaret Mitchell
How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonourable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonourable deed! Scarlett O’Hara
