Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Margaret Mitchell
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Margaret Mitchell
Age: 48 †
Born: 1900
Born: November 9
Died: 1949
Died: August 16
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
Realizing
Money
Seems
Much
Made
Wreckage
People
Civilization
Realize
Seem
More quotes by Margaret Mitchell
After all, tomorrow is another day.
Margaret Mitchell
Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
Margaret Mitchell
The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.
Margaret Mitchell
It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.
Margaret Mitchell
Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.
Margaret Mitchell
Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.
Margaret Mitchell
I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.
Margaret Mitchell
They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.
Margaret Mitchell
The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain
Margaret Mitchell
Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.
Margaret Mitchell
A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face. - Rhett Butler
Margaret Mitchell
There ain't nothin' from the outside can lick any of us.
Margaret Mitchell
Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, The dogs bark but the caravan passes on? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.
Margaret Mitchell
If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
Margaret Mitchell
Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.
Margaret Mitchell
No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.
Margaret Mitchell
Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
Margaret Mitchell
. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.
Margaret Mitchell
I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.
Margaret Mitchell
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
