One of the most striking heroines in literature is the main female character from the book "Gone with the Wind" by Scarlett O'Hara. She is an example of a strong and purposeful woman, an extraordinary personality for that time. And many of Scarlett O'Hara's quotes have become popular all over the world.
About love
Some of Scarlett O'Hara's most famous quotes are about love. The heroine herself was popular with men due to her charming appearance and strong-willed character. But a woman like Scarlett could not fall in love with an ordinary man who was not endowed with strength of character. Despite the cynicism and commercialism, O'Hara continued to be a vulnerable person who wanted to lean on a strong male shoulder.
"I continued to love the costume, not him" - Scarlett throughout the book believed that she had strong feelings for Ashley Wilkes.
Therefore, she always tried to be near him and help him. But Scarlett did not think about the fact that she fell in love not with him, but with the image of the ideal man that she created in her head.
The impressionable and ardent girl decided that he was worthy of wearing a "suit". And only then Scarlett realized that she had long been in love with Rhett Butler - an unprincipled person who has the same qualities as her.
About men
Many of Scarlett O'Hara's quotes, in which she talked about men, became winged.
"It's good when a man is near, when you can snuggle up to him, feel the strength of his shoulder" - despite the fact that the main character was a strong and purposeful woman, she dreamed of a strong man.
Scarlett had to become strong, although she was once a spoiled and eccentric girl. But she kept waiting for a strong shoulder to lean on. All the men Scarlett has met (including Ashley Wilks) have lacked the necessary toughness. The exception was Rhett Butler, who admired Scarlett's courage and was in love with her.
Miss O'Hara was able to become brave and strong in order to survive and help her loved ones. When she began to revive her Big House, there would be no one nearby who could help her. Therefore, most of the men began to seem to Scarlett weak and unworthy of attention. The main character has become more adventurous and more determined than many men. She boldly said that there was no such man who could scare her. Often with such bold quotes, Scarlett O'Hara tried to disguise her vulnerability and impressionability.
About life
The heroine's most famous quote is:
"I will think about it tomorrow".
This phrase can be called the life motto of Scarlett O'Hara. It was this statement that calmed her and did not allow her to fall into despair or longing. Thanks to this motto, the heroine could gather herself and start a new day with renewed vigor. This quote by Scarlett O'Hara has become the personification of the fact that you do not need to constantly worry about the fact that you cannot solve something - you need to calm down, and then you can find a solution.
Dialogues with Rhett Butler
Scarlett O'Hara's quotes from the book "Gone with the Wind" are distinguished not only by everyday experience, but also by self-irony and a special attitude towards others. It is especially worth highlighting the dialogues between the main character and the cynical handsome Rhett:
"Do you like me, Scarlett, admit it?
Well, sometimes a little. When you don't act like a jerk.
But I, it seems to me, you like me precisely because I am a bastard.
Many considered Rhett just such a person - unprincipled, insensitive, mercantile. Nevertheless, he was determined and enterprising, possessed of the very strength that Scarlett appreciated in people. Scarlett and Rhett were similar in many ways, had a daring and strong-willed character, and their meetings resembled a verbal duel. But still, Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler have become one of the most romantic couples in literature.
Surely you will agree that Margaret Mitchell's "little brave woman" novel is the greatest literary work XX century. The life of the old South is transferred to the pages of the book with such love that once you read it, ...
Surely you will agree that Margaret Mitchell's novel "the brave little woman" is the greatest literary work of the 20th century.
The life of the old South is transferred to the pages of the book with such love that once you read it, you will not forget either the heroes of the novel or this era that has sunk into the abyss.
The red earth of Tara gave strength to continue to live not only the main character, but also many readers who returned to these pages again and again. The inimitable, cynical and businesslike Rhett Butler, the dreamy and romantic Ashley Wilks, the strong and contradictory Scarlett O'Hara will forever remain in the memory of everyone who has ever held this great novel in their hands.
Scarlett: "I'll think about it tomorrow"
- Well, why, in order to get a husband, you need to make a fool out of yourself?
- A gentleman always pretends to believe a lady, even if he knows she is not telling the truth.
- I discovered that money is the most important thing in the world, and God is my witness, I do not want to live without it anymore!
Curious facts:
The writer gave the opening chapters of the novel only to her husband, and it was to his criticism that she listened the most.
In 1937, the book bestseller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett in the film of the same name, did not get along very well on the set with her colleague who played the role of Ashley Wilkes, while Clark Gable, who played the role of Rhett, became a true friend of the actress.
- But, Rhett, I wanted to send you to hell first!
- There are so many things to think about. Why bother with what you can’t return - you need to think about what else can be changed.
Rhett Butler: "Marry for convenience, love for pleasure"
- So I'm right that any virtue can be bought with money - it's just a matter of price.
- In the end, what will happen to us, apparently, is what always happens when civilization collapses. People who have intelligence and courage swim up, and those who do not have these qualities go to the bottom.
- Big money can be made in two cases: when creating a new state and when it collapses. During creation, this process is slower; during destruction, it is fast.
- No matter what slogans shouted by speakers, driving fools to the slaughter, no matter how noble goals set before them, the cause of wars is always the same. Money.
It's curious:
Mitchell donated the film rights to her bestseller for $50,000.
Wow! Clark Gable was bought for the intended role from MGM for as much as $1.2 million! The creator of the novel herself wanted the role to be played by comedian Groucho Marx. Needless to say, Clark's earnings exceeded Vivienne's fee by almost 5 times! ($120K vs $25K)
Mitchell did not like the final script for the film, but the director did not pay attention to her displeasure. It is curious that the famous Scott Fitzgerald participated in the creation of some scenes of the film, but he was not even mentioned in the credits.
The Oscar for best screenplay was awarded posthumously to Sidney Howard, because he died a month before the picture was released.
Oddly enough, Alfred Hitchcock himself was entrusted with helping to shoot one of the episodes of the picture, but his works were not included in the final version.
- Politeness does not interfere even in grief.
- There is too much nobility in her for her to believe in the lack of nobility in those she loves. (about Melanie)
- We live in a free country, and everyone has the right to be a scoundrel if he likes it.
- Women have such hardness and endurance that men never dreamed of - yes, I always thought so, although from childhood I was taught that women are fragile, delicate, sensual creatures.
Other quotes from the book and film
- "Don't waste your time, it's the stuff that life is made of." Clock inscription at Twelve Oaks
- Oh, those lazy, unhurried days and quiet warm rural twilight! Muted female laughter in services! How golden-warm life was then, how calm confidence warmed that tomorrow would be the same! Is it possible to cross it all out?
- And when you put your work into something, you begin to love it. Will Bentin.
It's curious:
At the end of filming, the lead actress began to experience irritation and dissatisfaction with everything around her, while Vivienne was able to win the long-awaited Oscar with this role.
The heroine Vivien Leigh had as many as 27 almost identical purple outfits, which differed only in the degree of wear. This technique made it possible to contemplate how, over the years, Scarlett's only dress lost its shape and strength.
The actress who played the main character's mother was only 3 years older than Vivien Leigh at the time of filming.
Hattie McDaniel, who got the role of a black nanny, became the first African-American woman to win an Oscar. The funny thing is that because of the laws that existed then, she could not even get to the premiere.
- The earth is the only thing in the world that has value. Gerald O'Hara
- Many of the ills of the world have been caused by wars. And then, when the war ended, no one, in fact, could really explain what it was all about. Ashley Wilks
The picture received as many as eight film awards from the American Film Academy and is considered one of the highest-grossing films in the history of American cinema.
A big contribution to the treasury of the film's popularity was made by the fact that the movie was in color, which undoubtedly attracted crowds of spectators.
A ticket to a movie premiere cost about $10, but cunning speculators managed to sell passes to the cinema at a price of $200!
And strong in the spirit of her people, not accepting defeat, even when it is obvious, Scarlett raised her head. She will bring Rhett back. She knows she will return. There is no such person whom she could not conquer if she wanted to.
The last lines of the novel can restore the confidence that life must go on, no matter what. We must find the strength in ourselves to continue to live and fight - as the heroes of the novel did. And to believe that "tomorrow will be a completely different day!"
Hello, lovers of quotes and aphorisms!
Quotes from Gone with the Wind
Marry for convenience, but love for pleasure. Rhett Butler
Oh no! I can't! You don't have to invite me. My reputation will perish.
- From it, and so there were already only tatters ...
God is my witness, God is my witness, I won't let the Yankees break me. I'll get through it all, and when it's over, I'll never, ever go hungry again. Neither me nor my loved ones. God is my witness, I would rather steal or kill, but I will not starve. Scarlett O'Hara
War is not a triumphal procession, but suffering and dirt! Ashley Wilks
The Just Cause did not seem to her sacred, and the war - something sublime. For her, it was something annoyingly intruding into life, costing a lot of money, meaninglessly sowing death and making difficult to access what delights being.
Big money can be made in two cases: when creating a new state and when it collapses. During creation, this process is slower; during destruction, it is fast. Rhett Butler
The main thing is to work tirelessly and stop tormenting yourself because the Yankees are now ruling them. Scarlett O'Hara
Wanting is not the same as getting. And life has not yet taught that victory does not always go to those who go ahead.
Women have such hardness and endurance that men never dreamed of - yes, I always thought so, although from childhood I was taught that women are fragile, delicate, sensual creatures. Rhett Butler
If I was ever strong, it was only because she stood behind me. Ashley Wilks
She loves you. So you will have to carry this cross as well. Rhett Butler
You were born to be someone's wife. So why not mine? Rhett Butler
I love babies and little children before they grow up and think like adults and learn how to lie and cheat and be mean like adults. Rhett Butler
Ashley thought he had never truly met a more courageous person than Scarlett O'Hara, determined to conquer the world with a dress made from her mother's velvet drapes and feathers plucked from a cock's tail.
And if you can, try not to be more of a fool than you really are. Rhett Butler
When will you finally stop waiting for compliments from men on every trifling occasion? Rhett Butler
Not everything can be bought with money.
- Who gave it to you? You yourself could not think of such a banality. What can't be bought with money?
- Well, how ... I don't know ... In any case, happiness and love are impossible.
- Most often you can. And if it does not work out, then they can always find an excellent replacement.
However, real ladies are rarely, in my opinion, attractive. Rhett Butler
Gentlemen don't like women who think too much on their own.
To survive in difficult years, the family must confront fate with a united front.
If I were his wife, he would be completely different with me!
- Is that what you think? You don't know men well.
You see, I'm so badly brought up that I'm proud of my beautiful wife.
Men, if you dig deeper, do not differ in common sense.
It was a stunning thought - that a woman can do business as well as a man, or even better.
Get away! Get away from me! Leave, do you hear? I don't want to see you anymore. Never. I will be happy if you are torn apart by a shell! Into a thousand pieces! I…
- Don't bother yourself with the details. Your main idea is clear to me.
Do you like me, Scarlett, admit it?
“Well, sometimes, a little,” she said cautiously. - When you don't act like a jerk.
- But I, it seems to me, you like me precisely because I'm a bastard.
I won't let you kiss me either.
- Why do you stick out your lips so funny then?
No matter what slogans shouted by speakers, driving fools to the slaughter, no matter how noble goals set before them, the cause of wars is always the same. Money. Rhett Butler
If I got this burden, then I can handle it.
My kitty, I have already been to hell, and he turned out to be incredibly boring. I won't go to him again, even to please you. Rhett Butler
A gentleman always pretends to believe a lady, even if he knows she is not telling the truth.
Everything has its turn. Hard times are not forever.
That person is bad, and that people is bad, who sits and sheds tears just because life does not turn out the way we would like.
You will either make money in a way that is inappropriate for a lady and be coldly received everywhere, or you will be poor and noble, but you will make a lot of friends.
If you're trying to get something out of a man, don't tell him everything all at once, like I did now. Try to be more deadly, more seductive. This brings the best results. Rhett Butler
Tears can be useful when there is a man nearby from whom you need to achieve something.
Never miss an opportunity to experience something new. It broadens your horizons. With
And the wave of her eyelashes sealed his fate.
Strong people do not like witnesses to their weakness.
I want to possess you - I have not waited for a single woman like you, and I have not waited for a single one for so long. Rhett Butler
Do I really mean that much to you? - In general, yes. After all, I have invested so much money in you - I would not want to lose it. Rhett Butler
Why do I need all this if I can't have the one I want? Scarlett O'Hara
Somewhere on the steep, winding road she'd been plodding along for the last four years, this girl, with her perfumed dresses and ball slippers, got lost unnoticed, leaving in her place a young woman with a hard, slightly slanting green eye, counting every penny, not shunning any menial work. , a woman who had lost everything except the indestructible red earth on which she stood among the rubble.
Nothing in the whole world can knock us down, but we ourselves knock ourselves down - we sigh over what we no longer have, and we think too often about the past.
Scarlett: For that matter, I'd rather kiss a pig.
Rhett: There's no accounting for taste.
Happiness is possible only where similar people love each other.
Burdens either hew people or break them.
Being different… is a sin that no society forgives. Dare to be different from others - and you will be anathematized!
If you're not doing anything wrong, it's because you didn't get the opportunity.
Death, taxes, and childbearing all come crashing down on us at the most inopportune times.
Tomorrow will be a completely different day.
You are like that thief who regrets not about what he did, but about the fact that he ended up in prison. Rhett Butler
I don't need you to rescue me. I can take care of myself, merci.
- Don't talk like that, Scarlett. Think like that if you like, but never, ever say that to a man.
Really, Scarlett, I can't spend my whole life chasing after you, waiting to squeeze between two husbands!
For some reason, most people just can't figure out that you can earn just as much money from the collapse of a civilization as from creating it.
A good reputation can be excellently dispensed with, provided you have money and enough courage.
To deceive oneself is the lot of weak natures.
A person cannot move forward if the pain of memories corrodes his soul.
Sir, you are not a gentleman, she snapped.
"A very subtle observation," he remarked cheerfully. - Just like you, miss, not lady.
... and he said that he prefers a bullet in the forehead than a fool in his wife.
For a marriage to be happy, the husband and wife must be of the same quality.
There are so many things to think about. Why bother with what you can’t return - you need to think about what else can be changed. Scarlett O'Hara
Why does a girl have to look like a fool to catch the groom? Scarlett O'Hara
About what will happen tomorrow, I will think tomorrow. Scarlett O'Hara
She had failed to understand either of the two men she had loved, and now she had lost both. Somewhere in her mind was the thought that if she understood Ashley, she would never love him, but if she understood Rhett, she would never lose him.
One of the most striking heroines in literature is the main female character from the book "Gone with the Wind" by Scarlett O'Hara. She is an example of a strong and purposeful woman, an extraordinary personality for that time. And many of Scarlett O'Hara's quotes have become popular all over the world.
About love
Some of Scarlett O'Hara's most famous quotes are about love. The heroine herself was popular with men due to her charming appearance and strong-willed character. But a woman like Scarlett could not fall in love with an ordinary man who was not endowed with strength of character. Despite the cynicism and commercialism, O'Hara continued to be a vulnerable person who wanted to lean on a strong male shoulder.
"I continued to love the costume, not him" - Scarlett throughout the book believed that she had strong feelings for Ashley Wilkes.
Therefore, she always tried to be near him and help him. But Scarlett did not think about the fact that she fell in love not with him, but with the image of the ideal man that she created in her head.
The impressionable and ardent girl decided that he was worthy of wearing a "suit". And only then Scarlett realized that she had long been in love with Rhett Butler - an unprincipled person who has the same qualities as her.
About men
Many of Scarlett O'Hara's quotes, in which she talked about men, became winged.
"It's good when a man is near, when you can snuggle up to him, feel the strength of his shoulder" - despite the fact that the main character was a strong and purposeful woman, she dreamed of a strong man.
Scarlett had to become strong, although she was once a spoiled and eccentric girl. But she kept waiting for a strong shoulder to lean on. All the men Scarlett has met (including Ashley Wilks) have lacked the necessary toughness. The exception was Rhett Butler, who admired Scarlett's courage and was in love with her.
Miss O'Hara was able to become brave and strong in order to survive and help her loved ones. When she began to revive her Big House, there would be no one nearby who could help her. Therefore, most of the men began to seem to Scarlett weak and unworthy of attention. The main character has become more adventurous and more determined than many men. She boldly said that there was no such man who could scare her. Often with such bold quotes, Scarlett O'Hara tried to disguise her vulnerability and impressionability.
About life
The heroine's most famous quote is:
"I will think about it tomorrow".
This phrase can be called the life motto of Scarlett O'Hara. It was this statement that calmed her and did not allow her to fall into despair or longing. Thanks to this motto, the heroine could gather herself and start a new day with renewed vigor. This quote by Scarlett O'Hara has become the personification of the fact that you do not need to constantly worry about the fact that you cannot solve something - you need to calm down, and then you can find a solution.
Dialogues with Rhett Butler
Scarlett O'Hara's quotes from the book "Gone with the Wind" are distinguished not only by everyday experience, but also by self-irony and a special attitude towards others. It is especially worth highlighting the dialogues between the main character and the cynical handsome Rhett:
"Do you like me, Scarlett, admit it?
Well, sometimes a little. When you don't act like a jerk.
But I, it seems to me, you like me precisely because I am a bastard.
Many considered Rhett just such a person - unprincipled, insensitive, mercantile. Nevertheless, he was determined and enterprising, possessed of the very strength that Scarlett appreciated in people. Scarlett and Rhett were similar in many ways, had a daring and strong-willed character, and their meetings resembled a verbal duel. But still, Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler have become one of the most romantic couples in literature.
