98 Margaret Mitchell Quotes That Are Worth Knowing
Margaret Mitchell, who published under the name of Peggy Mitchell, was a renowned American author and journalist, most famous for her work ‘Gone with the wind’. This novel was based on American Civil war period for which she was awarded the esteemed Pulitzer Prize for fiction. History is witness to wars that have taken millions of lives and with her masterpiece (Gone with the wind) she tried to convey the sufferings that common people faced due to war. Through her masterpiece she certainly left behind a legacy that highlights the negative impacts of war. We have curated some of Margaret Mitchell’s most famous quotes from her writings and observations. Read these quotes from one of the greatest novelist to have lived in the history of English Literature.
![Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34460.jpg)
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
![Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34461.jpg)
Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
![With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34462.jpg)
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
![After all, tomorrow is another day!](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34463.jpg)
After all, tomorrow is another day!
![Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34464.jpg)
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.
![My dear, I don't give a damn.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34465.jpg)
My dear, I don't give a damn.
![I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34466.jpg)
I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.
![I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34467.jpg)
I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
![Sir,](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34468.jpg)
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.
![Hardships make or break people.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34469.jpg)
Hardships make or break people.
![Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34470.jpg)
Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
![It was better to know the worst than to wonder.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34471.jpg)
It was better to know the worst than to wonder.
![Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34472.jpg)
Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler
![Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34473.jpg)
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
![Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34474.jpg)
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
![I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34475.jpg)
I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.
![You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34476.jpg)
You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.
![If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34477.jpg)
If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
![Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34478.jpg)
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.
![Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34480.jpg)
Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler
![And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34479.jpg)
And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
![Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34481.jpg)
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
![That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34482.jpg)
That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
![I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34483.jpg)
I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.
![I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34484.jpg)
I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't... My dear, I don't give a damn.
![Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34485.jpg)
Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
![Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34486.jpg)
Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.
![The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34487.jpg)
The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts".....Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind.
![It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34488.jpg)
It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.
![Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/margaret-mitchell-34489.jpg)
Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.