Цитаты из книги Gone with the Wind

Scarlett looked at her father in the fading light, and, without knowing why, she found it comforting to be in his presence. There was something vital and earthy and coarse about him that appealed to her. Being the least analytic of people, she did not realize that this was because she possessed in some degree the same qualities, despite sixteen years of effort on the part of Ellen and Mammy to obliterate them

She was his oldest child and, now that Gerald knew there would be no more sons to follow the three who lay in the family burying-ground, he had drifted into a habit of treating her in a man-to-man manner which she found more pleasant. She was more like her father than her younger sisters, for Careen, who had been born Caroline Irene, was delicate and dreamy, and Suellen, christened Susan Elinor, prided herself on her elegance and ladylike deportment

His breath in her face was strong with Bourbon whisky mingled with a faint fragrance of mind. Accompanying him also were the smells of chewing tobacco, well-oiled leather and horses-a combination of odours that she always associated with her father and instinctively liked in other men

She knew he loved her. Why did he not tell her so? That she could not understand. But there were so many things about him that she did not understand

In seemed strange now that when she was growing up Ashley had never seemed so very attractive to her. In childhood days, she had seen him come and go and never given him a thought. But since that day two years ago when Ashley, newly home from his three years' Grand Tour in Europe, had called to pay his respects, she had loved him. It was as simple as that

Whom Mammy loved, she chastaned. And, as her love for Scarlett and her pride in her were enormous, the chastening process was practically continuous

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

She meant what she said, for she could never long endure any conversation of which she was not the chief subject

But for all the modesty of her spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quiteness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self was poorly concealed. The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, wilful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanour. Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own

– Есть такие вещи, которые покажутся очень глупыми, если облечь их в слова.

.. люди могут простить почти все - не прощают лишь тем, кто не интересуется своими делами.

Ну что ж, зато у меня есть кое-что, чего у большинства красавец и в помине нет: я умею принять решение и добиваться своего.

Как оказывается, легко родить ребёнка и как мучительно - не родить!

– Людям благочестивым всегда досадно, когда неблагочестивые цветут как пышный зелёный лавр.

–Бедное мое дитя, вы же ни разу ещё не были по-настоящему замужем. Откуда вам знать, что это такое? Согласен, вам не очень повезло: в первый раз вы вышли замуж, чтобы досадить, другой раз - из-за денег. А вы когда-нибудь думали о том, что можно выйти замуж – ради удовольствия?

«О, матерь божья, помоги мне поудачнее соврать»