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Gone with the Wind (film) Quotes

Gone with the Wind (film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Gone with the Wind stopped airing in 1970.

It features David O. Selznick as producer, Max Steiner in charge of musical score, and Ernest Haller as head of cinematography.

Gone with the Wind (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Gone with the Wind (film) is 221 minutes, and 234-238 minutes long. Gone with the Wind (film) is distributed by Loews Cineplex Entertainment.

The cast includes: Vivien Leigh as Scarlett, Clark Gable as Rhett Butler, Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara, Marcella Martin as Cathleen Calvert, Butterfly McQueen as Prissy, Hattie McDaniel as Mammy, Harry Davenport as Dr. Meade, Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton, Cammie King as Bonnie Blue Butler, Laura Hope Crews as Aunt 'Pittypat' Hamilton, Leslie Howard as Ashley, Ann Rutherford as Carreen, Hattie McDaniel as Man, Oscar Polk as Pork, and Ona Munson as Belle Watling.

Gone with the Wind (film) Quotes

Vivien Leigh as Scarlett

  • (Vivien Leigh) "You'd rather live with that silly little fool who can't open her mouth except to say "yes" or "no" and raise a passel of mealy-mouthed brats just like her."
  • (Leslie Howard) "You mustn't say unkind things about Melanie."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Who are you to tell me I mustn't? You led me on -- you made me believe you wanted to marry me."
  • (Leslie Howard) "Now Scarlett, be fair. I never at any time --"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "You did, it's true, you did."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "How do I look?"
  • (Clark Gable) "Awful. Just awful."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Why? What's the matter?"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Why don't you just say it, you coward? You're afraid to marry me. You'd rather live with that silly little fool who can't open her mouth except to say, "yes" and "no" and raise a passle of mealy-mouthed brats just like her."
  • (Leslie Howard) "You mustn't say things like that about Melanie."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Who are you to tell me I mustn't. You led me on. You made me believe you wanted to marry me."
  • (Leslie Howard) "Now, Scarlett be fair. I never at any time --"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "You did. It's true. You did. I'll hate till I die. I can't think of anything bad enough to call you."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Now I didn't come to talk silliness about me, Rhett. I came 'cause I was so miserable at the thought of you in trouble. Oh, I know I was mad at you the night you left me on the road to Tara, and I still haven't forgiven you."
  • (Clark Gable) "Oh, Scarlett. Don't say that."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Well I must admit I might not be alive now, only for you. And when I think of myself with everything I could possibly hope for, and not a care in the world -- And you here in this horrid jail -- and not even a human jail, Rhett, a horse jail."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Rhett, don't. I shall faint."
  • (Clark Gable) "I want you to faint. This is what you were meant for. None of the fools you've ever know have kissed you like this, have they? Your Charles, or your Frank, or your stupid Ashley."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Fiddledee dee"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Great balls of fire. HICCUP. It's Rhett."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Now isn't this better than sitting at a table? A girl hasn't got but two sides to her at the table."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "I can't let Tara go. I won't let it go while there's a breath left in my body."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "I only know that I love you."
  • (Clark Gable) "That's your misfortune."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Sir, you are no gentleman."
  • (Clark Gable) "And you, Miss, are no lady."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "She's being just like Pa. Just Like Pa."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Dreams, dreams always dreams with you, never common sense."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Oh Ashley, Ashley, I love you."
  • (Leslie Howard) "Scarlett --"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "I love you, I do."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "I can shoot straight, if I don't have to shoot too far."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Ooh, if I just wasn't a lady, WHAT wouldn't I tell that varmint."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Rhett, Rhett -- Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?"
  • (Clark Gable) "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "But you are a blockade runner."
  • (Clark Gable) "For profit, and profit only."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Are you tryin' to tell me you don't believe in the cause?"
  • (Clark Gable) "I believe in Rhett Butler, he's the only cause I know."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Cathleen, who's that?"
  • (Marcella Martin) "Who?"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "That man looking at us and smiling. The nasty, dark one."
  • (Marcella Martin) "My dear, don't you know? That's Rhett Butler. He's from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "He looks as if -- as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Tara. Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all -- tomorrow is another day."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "You low-down, cowardly, nasty thing you. They were right. Everybody was right. You; You aren't a gentleman."
  • (Clark Gable) "A minor point at such a moment. Here, if anyone lays a hand on that Nag shoot him but don't make a mistake and shoot the Nag."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Go on. I want you to go. I hope a cannonball lands slap on you. I hope your blown into a million pieces. I --"
  • (Clark Gable) "Nevermind the rest. I follow your general idea. And when I'm dead on the altar of my country I hope your conscience hurts you. Goodbye, Scarlett."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Rhett, how could you do this to me, and why should you go now that, after it's all over and I need you, why? Why?"
  • (Clark Gable) "Why? Maybe it's because I've always had a weakness for lost causes, once they're really lost. Or maybe, maybe I'm ashamed of myself. Who knows?"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Go. Go."
  • (Butterfly McQueen) "It's dead. It's dead."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
  • (Brent Tarleton) "What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is gonna start any day now, so we'd have left college anyhow."
  • (Stuart Tarleton) "War. Isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yankees actually want a war?"
  • (Brent Tarleton) "We'll show 'em."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war; this war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides -- there isn't going to be any war."
  • (Brent Tarleton) "Not going to be any war?"
  • (Stuart Tarleton) "Why, honey, of course there's gonna be a war."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "If either of you boys says "war" just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door."
  • (Brent Tarleton) "But Scarlett, honey --"
  • (Stuart Tarleton) "Don't you want us to have a war?"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Well -- but remember, I warned you."

Clark Gable as Rhett Butler

  • (Clark Gable) "Open your eyes and look at me. No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing badly."
  • (Clark Gable) "You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail."
  • (Clark Gable) "So, you see I shall have to marry you."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "I've never heard of such bad taste."
  • (Clark Gable) "Would you be more convinced if I fell to my knees?"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Turn me loose, you varmint, and get out of here."
  • (Clark Gable) "Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett. I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. But it cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have felt for you has ripened into a deeper feeling. A feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it? Can it be love?"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Get up off your knees. I don't like your common jokes."
  • (Clark Gable) "This is an honorable proposal of marriage made at what I consider a most opportune moment. I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "You're coarse, and you're conceited. And I think this conversation has gone far enough."
  • (Clark Gable) "How fickle is woman."
  • (Clark Gable) "No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how."
  • (Clark Gable) "Would you satisfy my curiosity on a point which has bothered me for some time?"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Well, what is it? Be quick."
  • (Clark Gable) "Tell me, Scarlett, do you never shrink from marrying men you don't love?"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "How did you ever get out of jail? Why didn't they hang you?"
  • (Clark Gable) "You still think you're the cutest trick in shoe leather."
  • (Clark Gable) "With enough courage, you can do without a reputation."
  • (Clark Gable) "The right moment everyday."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "You're a conceited, black heated vulture and I don't know I let you come in and see me."
  • (Clark Gable) "I'll tell you why, Scarlett. The war can't last much longer."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Really, Rhett. Why?"
  • (Clark Gable) "There's a little battle going on right now."
  • (Clark Gable) "I've always thought a good lashing with a buggy whip would benefit you immensely."
  • (Clark Gable) "You can come to my hanging and I'll remember you in my will."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "The only thing I'm afraid of is they won't hang you in time to pay the taxes on Tara."
  • (Clark Gable) "Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men you mean."
  • (Clark Gable) "Don't give yourself airs, Scarlett."
  • (Clark Gable) "What a woman."
  • (Clark Gable) "You go into the arena alone. The lions are hungry for you."
  • (Clark Gable) "I'm very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening's over."
  • (Clark Gable) "A cat's a better mother than you."
  • (Clark Gable) "Open your eyes and look at me. No, I don't think I will kiss you. Although you need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often and by someone who knows how."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "And I suppose you think you're the proper person."
  • (Clark Gable) "I might be -- if the right moment ever came."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "You're a conceited, blackhearted varmint Rhett Butler. I don't know why I let come and see me."
  • (Clark Gable) "I'll tell you why, Scarlett. Because I'm the only man over sixteen and under sixty who's around to show you a good time."
  • (Clark Gable) "Why, all we have is cotton and slaves and arrogance."

Butterfly McQueen as Prissy

  • (Butterfly McQueen) "Lawzy, we got to have a doctor. I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies."

Harry Davenport as Dr. Meade

  • (Rene Picard) "$20. $20 for Miss Maybelle Merriwether."
  • (Tony Fontaine) "$25 for Miss Fanny Elsing."
  • (Harry Davenport) "Only $25 to give?"
  • (Clark Gable) "$150 in gold."
  • (Harry Davenport) "For what lady, sir?"
  • (Clark Gable) "For Mrs. Charles Hamilton."
  • (Harry Davenport) "For whom, sir?"
  • (Clark Gable) "Mrs. Charles Hamilton."
  • (Harry Davenport) "Mrs. Hamilton is in mourning, Captain Butler. But I'm sure any of our Atlanta belles would be proud to --"
  • (Clark Gable) "Dr. Meade, I said Mrs. Charles Hamilton."
  • (Harry Davenport) "She will not consider it, sir."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Oh, yes, I will."
  • (Clark Gable) "Well, we've sort of shocked the Confederacy, Scarlett."
  • (Harry Davenport) "Now you've got to listen to me. You must stay here."
  • (Laura Hope Crews) "Without a chaperon, Dr. Meade? It simply isn't done."
  • (Harry Davenport) "Good heavens, woman. This is a war, not a garden party."

Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton

  • (Olivia de Havilland) "So, you've got my husband intoxicated again, Captain Butler. Well, bring him in."
  • (Tom - Yankee Captain) "I'm sorry, Mrs. Wilkes. Your husband's under arrest."
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "If you arrest all the men who get intoxicated in Atlanta, you must have a good many Yankees in jail, Captain. Bring him in, Captain Butler, if you can walk yourself."
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "Whatever happens, I'll love you just as I do now until I die."
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "Who is it?"
  • (Ona Munson) "It's Miss Watling"
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "Oh, Miss Watling, won't you come in the house?"
  • (Ona Munson) "Oh, no, I couldn't do that Mrs Wilkes; you come in and set a minute with me"
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "How can I thank you enough for what you did for us? How can any of us thank you enough?"
  • (Ona Munson) "I got your note saying you were going to call on me and thank me. Oh Mrs Wilkes, you must have lost your mind. I come up here as soon as it was dark to tell you you mustn't even think of such things. Why I'm -- Why you're -- Well it wouldn't be fittin' at all"
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "Wouldn't be fitting for me to call on a kind woman who saved my husband's life?"
  • (Ona Munson) "Mrs Wilkes, there ain't never been a woman in town that's been nice to me the way you was; I mean about the money for the hospital, you know, and I don't forget a kindness. I got to thinkin' about you bein' left a widow, with a little boy; he's a nice little boy, your boy, Mrs Wilkes. I got a boy myself --"
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "Oh you have? Does he live"
  • (Ona Munson) "Oh, no, he ain't in Atlanta; he ain't never been here. He's off at school. I ain't seen him since he was little, and I -- Well, anyways, if it had been that Mrs Kennedy's husband by himself, I wouldn't lift a finger to help. She's a mighty cold woman, prancin' about Atlanta by herself. She killed her husband, same as if she shot him"
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "You mustn't say unkind things about my sister-in-law"
  • (Ona Munson) "Oh. Please don't haze me Mrs Wilkes; I forgot how you liked her. But she just ain't in the same class with you, and I can't help it if I think so. Well, anyways, I gotta be goin'. I'm scared somebody'll recognize this carriage if I stay here any longer; that wouldn't do you no good. And Mrs Wilkes, if you ever see me on the street, you don't have to speak to me; I'll understand"
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "I shall be proud to speak to you, proud to be under obligation to you. I hope we meet again"
  • (Ona Munson) "Oh, no, that wouldn't be fittin'. Goodnight Mrs Wilkes"
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "Goodnight Miss Watling."
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "And you're wrong about Mrs Kennedy; she's broken hearted about her husband"

Cammie King as Bonnie Blue Butler

  • (Cammie King) "London Bridge? Will it be falling down?"
  • (Clark Gable) "Well, it will if you want it to, darling."

Hattie McDaniel as Mammy

  • (Hattie McDaniel) "It ain't fittin' -- it ain't fittin'. It jes' ain't fittin' -- It ain't fittin'."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "He went out and shot that poor pony, and, for a minute, I thought he was gonna shoot himself."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "She says she's comin'. I don't know why she's comin', but she's a-comin'."
  • (Clark Gable) "You don't like me, Mammy."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "Hmph."
  • (Clark Gable) "Now don't you argue with me. You don't. You really don't."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "Oh now, Miss Scarlett, you come on and eat jess a little, honey."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "No. I'm going to have a good time today, and do my eating at the barbeque."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "If you don't care what folks says about dis family I does. I is told ya and told ya that you can always tell a lady by the way she eat in front of folks like a bird. And I ain't aimin' for you to go to Mr. John Wilkenson's and eat like a field hand and gobble like a hog."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Fiddle-dee-dee. Ashley told me he likes to see a girl with a healthy appetite."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "What gentlemen says and what they thinks is two different things, and I ain't noticed Mr. Ashley askin' for to marry you."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "Now don't eat too fast. Ain't no need for it come right back up again."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Why does a girl have to be so silly to catch a husband?"
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "What's come over this here town?"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Yankees have come over it. Same as they've come over all of us."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "It makes my blood run cold, the things they say to one another."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "Lordy, Miss Melly. I sure is glad you's come."
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "Oh, Mammy, this house won't seem the same without Bonnie. How's Miss Scarlett bearing up?"
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "Miss Melly, this here's done broke her heart. But I didn't fetch you on Miss Scarlett's account. What that child got to stand, the good Lord give her strength to stand. It's Mr. Rhett I's worried about. He done lost his mind these last couple of days."
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "Oh, no, Mammy, no."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "I ain't never seen no man, black or white, set such store on any child. When Dr. Meade say her neck broke Mr. Rhett grabbed his gun and run out and shoot that poor pony. And for a minute, I think he gonna shoot hisself."
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "Oh, poor Captain Butler"
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "Miss Scarlett called him a murderer for teaching that child to jump. She said, "You give me my baby what you killed." And then he say Miss Scarlett ain't never cared nothing about Miss Bonnie. It like to turn my blood cold, the things they say to one another."
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "Stop, Mammy, don't tell me any more."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "And then that night Mr. Rhett, he locked hisself in the nursery with Miss Bonnie. He wouldn't even open the door when Miss Scarlett beat on it and hollered to him and that's where he's been for two whole days."
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "Oh, Mammy."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "And then this evening, Miss Scarlett shouted through the door and said: "The funeral's set for tomorrow morning." and he says, "You try that and I kills you tomorrow. Do you think I's gonna put my child in the dark when she's so scared of it?""
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "Oh, Mammy, Mammy. He has lost his mind."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "Yes'm, that's the God's truth. He ain't gonna let us bury that child. You gotta help us Miss Melly."
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "Oh, but I can't intrude."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "If you can't help us, who can? Mr. Rhett always set great store by your opinion. Please, Miss Melly."
  • (Olivia de Havilland) "I'll do what I can, Mammy."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "Who dat? I ain't never seen hair that color before. Do you know a dyed haired woman?"
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Wish I knew that one. She'd get my money for me."

Ann Rutherford as Carreen

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Leslie Howard as Ashley

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Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara

  • (Thomas Mitchell) "And what does the captain of our troops say?"
  • (Leslie Howard) "Well, gentlemen, if Georgia fights, I go with her. But like my father I hope that the Yankees let us leave the Union in peace."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "But Ashley, Ashley, they've insulted us."
  • (Charles Hamilton - Her Brother) "You can't mean you don't want war."
  • (Leslie Howard) "Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were about."
  • (Thomas Mitchell) "Now gentlemen, Mr. Butler has been up North I hear. Don't you agree with us, Mr. Butler?"
  • (Clark Gable) "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen."
  • (Charles Hamilton - Her Brother) "What do you mean, sir?"
  • (Clark Gable) "I mean, Mr. Hamilton, there's not a cannon factory in the whole South."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "What difference does that make, sir, to a gentleman?"
  • (Clark Gable) "I'm afraid it's going to make a great deal of difference to a great many gentlemen, sir."
  • (Charles Hamilton - Her Brother) "Are you hinting, Mr. Butler, that the Yankees can lick us?"
  • (Clark Gable) "No, I'm not hinting. I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. They've got factories, shipyards, coalmines -- and a fleet to bottle up our harbors and starve us to death. All we've got is cotton, and slaves and -- arrogance."
  • (Hattie McDaniel) "That's treacherous."
  • (Charles Hamilton - Her Brother) "I refuse to listen to any renegade talk."
  • (Clark Gable) "Well, I'm sorry if the truth offends you."
  • (Charles Hamilton - Her Brother) "Apologies aren't enough sir. I hear you were turned out of West Point, Mr. Rhett Butler. And that you aren't received in a decent family in Charleston. Not even your own."
  • (Clark Gable) "I apologize again for all my shortcomings. Mr. Wilkes, Perhaps you won't mind if I walk about and look over your place. I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars and -- dreams of victory."
  • (Thomas Mitchell) "It will come to you, this love of the land. There's no gettin' away from it if you're Irish."
  • (Thomas Mitchell) "Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that Tara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dyin' for, because it's the only thing that lasts."

Oscar Polk as Pork

  • (Oscar Polk) "Great Gee-hossefat."

Marcella Martin as Cathleen Calvert

  • (Marcella Martin) "Scarlett. My dear, he isn't received. He's had to spend most of his time at war because his folks in Charleston won't even speak to him. He was expelled from West Point, he's so fast, and then there's that business about that girl he wouldn't marry."
  • (Vivien Leigh) "Tell, tell."
  • (Marcella Martin) "Well, he took her out buggy riding in the late afternoon without a chaperon, and then -- and then he refused to marry her."
  • (Marcella Martin) "No. But she was ruined, just the same."

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