Rhett Butler

— I only know that I love you.
— That's your misfortune.

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

— To desert us here, alone, helpless...
— You aren’t helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you.

— I don't know why I let you come and see me!
— Because I'm the only one man over 16 and under 60 who's around to show you a good time.

— What can I say to make you understand? I've told you how sorry I am..
— My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, 'I'm sorry,' all the errors and hurts of years past can be remedied.

I think it's hard winning a war with words.

— Please, don't go! You can't leave, please. I'll never forgive you!
— I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never forgive myself. If a bullet gets me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. Thereis one thing I do know, and that is I love you, Scarlett. Inspite of you and meand the world going to pieces, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd, but able to look things in the eye and call them by name.

— Come to my hanging, I'll put you in my will.
— I'll come yo your hanging! i'm just afraid they won't hang you in time to pay the taxes on Tara!

— You know I'm sorry for you, Scarlett.
— Sorry for me?
— Yes, sorry for you because you throw away hapiness with both hands and reach out for something that'll never make you happy.
— I don't know what you're talking about.
— If you were free and Melly were dead and you had you precious Ashley, do you think you'd be happy with him? You'd never know him, never even understand his mind... anymore than you understand anything, except money.

Look at them, all these poor tragic people. The South sinking to its knees. It'll never rise again. "The Cause!" The cause of living in the past is dying right in front of us.