"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." Rhett Butler (movie)
"Always providing you have enough courage -or money - you can do without a reputation."
"Moeny can't buy everything."
"Someone must have told you that. You'd never think of such a platitude all by yourself. What can't it buy?"
"Oh, well, I don't know -not happiness or love, anyway."
"Generally it can. And when it can't it can buy some of the most remarkable substitutes." Rhett and Scarlett (p 193)
"Rhett....why do folks in this town treat me so scurvily and talk about me so? It's a toss-up who they talk worst about, me or the Carpetbaggers! I've minded my own business and haven't done anything wrong and --"
"If you haven't done anything wrong, it's because you haven't had the opporunity, and perhaps they dimly realize it." Scarlett and Rhett (670)
"Why, why her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world wihtout men's help -except having babies, and God knows, no owman in her right mind would have babies if she could help it." Scarlett (611)
"I was so mena and now he's dead."
"And if her wasn't dead, you'd still be mean. As I understand it, you are not really sorry for marrying Frank and bullying him and inadvertently causing his death. You are only sorry because you are afraid of going to hell....You are in the exact position of a theif who's been caught red handed and isn't sorry he stole but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail." Rhett and Scarlett (820)
"The strong were made to bully and the weak to knuckle over." Rhett (821)
""I'll not be holding my head up in this town," she began. "You've disgraced us all."
"Hold your tongue, Puss. Can you not see me head is bursting?"
"Coming home drunk with a man like Captain Butler, and singing at the top of your lungs for everyone to hear and losing all that money."
"The man is too clever with cards to be a gentleman. He --"
"What will Mother say when she hears?"
He looked up in sudden anguished apprehension. "You wouldn't be telling your mother a word and upsetting her, now would you?"
Scarlett said nothing but pursed her lips.
"Think now how 'twould hurt her and her so gentle."
"And to think, Pa, that you said only last night I had disgraced the family! Me, with my poor little dance to make money for the soldiers. Oh, I could cry."
"Well, don't," pleaded Gerald. "'Twould be more than me poor head could stand and sure 'tis bursting now."
"And you said that I --"
"Now Puss, now Puss, don't you be hurt at what your poor old father saided and him not meaning a thing and not understading a thing! Sure you're a fine well-meaning girl, I'm sure."
"And wanting to take me home in disgrace."
"Ah, darling, I wouldn't be doing that. 'Twas to tease you. You won't be mentioning the money to your mother and her in a flutter about expenses already?"
"No," said Scarlett frankly, "I won't, if you'll let me stay here and if you'll tell Mother that 'twas nothing but a lot of gossip from old cats."
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