Цитаты из книги «Gone with the Wind / Унесённые ветром»

If she knew little about men’s minds, she knew even less about the minds of women, for they interested her less. She had never had a girl friend, and she never felt any lack on that account. To her, all women, including her two sisters, were natural enemies hunting for the same prey – man.

“You go to – Halifax ,” she said shortly. “And let me out of this carriage

I was waiting for the memory of the estimable Ashley Wilkes to fade.”

Rhett looked lazy and his voice had an almost bored note. “All wars are sacred,” he said. “To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But there is always one reason for a war. And that is money. But so few people ever realize it.

Charles Hamilton, finding himself alone with Scarlett, leaned closer and whispered a confession. “Miss O’Hara – I – I had already decided that if we did fight, I’d go over to South Carolina and join a troop there.” She could think of nothing to say and so merely looked at him, wondering why men were such fools as to think women interested in such matters.

She had borne eight children, as red of hair and as full of life as she, and had raised them most successfully, because she gave them all the loving neglect and the stern discipline she gave the colts she bred.

No wife has ever changed a husband, and don’t you be forgetting that.

The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?”

“He was.” Gerald let go of his daughter’s arm and turned looking into her face. “And if that’s why you came out here to wait for me, why didn’t you say so without beating around the bush Scarlett could think of nothing to say, and she felt her face growing red.

But Scarlett O’Hara was going to conquer the world in her mother’s velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.