- Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?
- Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
- Scarlett: 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.
- Rhett Butler: 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.
- Rhett Butler: You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail.
- Scarlett: What are you doing?
- Rhett Butler: I'm leaving you, my dear. All you need now is a divorce and your dreams of Ashley can come true.
- Scarlett: Oh, no! No, you're wrong, terribly wrong! I don't want a divorce. Oh Rhett, but I knew tonight, when I... when I knew I loved you, I ran home to tell you, oh darling, darling!
- Rhett Butler: Please don't go on with this, Leave us some dignity to remember out of our marriage. Spare us this last.
- Scarlett: This last? Oh Rhett, do listen to me, I must have loved you for years, only I was such a stupid fool, I didn't know it. Please believe me, you must care! Melly said you did.
- Rhett Butler: I believe you. What about Ashley Wilkes?
- Scarlett: I... I never really loved Ashley.
- Rhett Butler: You certainly gave a good imitation of it, up till this morning. No Scarlett, I tried everything. If you'd only met me half way, even when I came back from London.
- Scarlett: I was so glad to see you. I was, Rhett, but you were so nasty.
- Rhett Butler: And then when you were sick, it was all my fault... I hoped against hope that you'd call for me, but you didn't.
- Scarlett: I wanted you. I wanted you desperately but I didn't think you wanted me.
- Rhett Butler: It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything.
- Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don't say that. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything.
- Rhett Butler: My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, "I'm sorry," all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
- Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett, where are you going?
- Rhett Butler: I'm going back to Charleston, back where I belong.
- Scarlett: Please, please take me with you!
- Rhett Butler: No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about?
- Scarlett: No! I only know that I love you.
- Rhett Butler: That's your misfortune.
- [Rhett turns to walk down the stairs]
- Scarlett: Oh, Rhett!
- [Scarlett watches Rhett walk to the door]
- Scarlett: Rhett!
- [runs down the stairs after Rhett]
- Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett!
- [catches him as he's walking out the front door]
- Scarlett: Rhett... if you go, where shall I go, what shall I do?
- Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
- [Rhett walks off into the fog]
- Scarlett: I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
- Rhett Butler: Would you satisfy my curiosity on a point which has bothered me for some time?
- Scarlett: Well, what is it? Be quick!
- Rhett Butler: Tell me, Scarlett, do you never shrink from marrying men you don't love?
- Scarlett: How did you ever get out of jail? Why didn't they hang you?
- [last lines]
- Scarlett: Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day.
- Gerald O'Hara: 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.
- Scarlett: Rhett, don't. I shall faint.
- Rhett Butler: 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.
- Scarlett: [pleads with Rhett as he is about to leave to join the Confederate Army] Oh, Rhett! Please, don't go! You can't leave me! Please! I'll never forgive you!
- Rhett Butler: I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.
- Scarlett: [struggles] Don't hold me like that!
- Rhett Butler: [holds her tighter] Scarlett! Look at me! I've loved you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited for you longer than I've ever waited for any woman.
- [kisses her forehead]
- Scarlett: [turns her face away] Let me alone!
- Rhett Butler: [forces her to look him in the eyes] Here's a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett. Wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me, you're a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett! Kiss me! Kiss me... once...
- [he kisses her]
- Scarlett: 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?
- Rhett Butler: 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?
- Rhett Butler: Take a good look my dear. It's an historic moment you can tell your grandchildren about - how you watched the Old South fall one night.
- Mammy: Oh now, Miss Scarlett, you come on and be good and eat just a little, honey!
- Scarlett: No! I'm going to have a good time today, and do my eating at the barbeque.
- Mammy: If you don't care what folks says about this family, I does! I is told you and told you that you can always tell a lady by the way she eat in front of folks like a bird. And I ain't aiming for you to go to Mr. John Wilkes' and eat like a field hand and gobble like a hog!
- Scarlett: Fiddle-dee-dee! Ashley Wilkes told me he likes to see a girl with a healthy appetite!
- Mammy: What gentlemen says and what they thinks is two different things, and I ain't noticed Mr. Ashley asking for to marry you.
- [Scarlett turns around slowly to face Mammy then throws her small black umbrella and stuffs food into her mouth]
- Mammy: Now, don't eat too fast. Ain't no need a having for it come right back up again!
- Scarlett: [With her mouth full] Why does a girl have to be so silly to catch a husband?
- Rene Picard: $20. $20 for Miss Maybelle Merriwether.
- Tony Fontaine: $25 for Miss Fanny Elsing.
- Dr. Meade: Only $25 to give?
- Rhett Butler: $150 in gold.
- Dr. Meade: For what lady, sir?
- Rhett Butler: For Mrs. Charles Hamilton.
- Dr. Meade: For whom, sir?
- Rhett Butler: Mrs. Charles Hamilton.
- Dr. Meade: Mrs. Hamilton is in mourning, Captain Butler. But I'm sure any of our Atlanta belles would be proud to...
- Rhett Butler: Dr. Meade, I said Mrs. Charles Hamilton.
- Dr. Meade: She will not consider it, sir.
- Scarlett: Oh, yes, I will.
- [Aunty Pittypat faints]
- Rhett Butler: [after the dance starts] Well, we've sort of shocked the Confederacy, Scarlett.
- Rhett Butler: So, you see I shall have to marry you.
- Scarlett: I've never heard of such bad taste.
- Rhett Butler: Would you be more convinced if I fell to my knees?
- Scarlett: Turn me loose, you varmint, and get out of here!
- Rhett Butler: 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?
- Scarlett: Get up off your knees! I don't like your common jokes!
- Rhett Butler: 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.
- Scarlett: You're coarse, and you're conceited. And I think this conversation has gone far enough.
- Scarlett: Cathleen, who's that?
- Cathleen Calvert: Who?
- Scarlett: That man looking at us and smiling. The nasty dog.
- Cathleen Calvert: My dear, don't you know? That's Rhett Butler. He's from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.
- Scarlett: He looks as if... as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy.
- Rhett Butler: Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?
- Scarlett: Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men you mean.
- Scarlett: [Rhett has heard Scarlett's and Ashley's fight] and Sir you should have made your presence known
- Rhett Butler: In the middle of that beautiful love scene. Now that wouldn't have been very tactful would it?
- Scarlett: Oh! You sir are no gentlemen.
- Rhett Butler: And you Ms. are no lady.
- [She is shocked and hurt]
- Rhett Butler: Don't think I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any appeal for me
- Scarlett: But you are a blockade runner.
- Rhett Butler: For profit, and profit only.
- Scarlett: Are you tryin' to tell me you don't believe in the cause?
- Rhett Butler: I believe in Rhett Butler, he's the only cause I know.
- Rhett Butler: And those pantalettes, I don't know a woman in Paris who wears pantalettes.
- Scarlett: Oh Rhett, what do they - you shouldn't talk about such things.
- Rhett Butler: You little hypocrite. You don't mind my knowing about them, just my talking about it.
- Scarlett: But really Rhett, I can't go on accepting these gifts although you are AWFULLY kind.
- Rhett Butler: I'm not kind, I'm just tempting you.
- Scarlett: Well if you think I'll marry you just to pay for the bonnet I won't.
- Rhett Butler: Don't flatter yourself. I'm not a marrying man.
- Gerald O'Hara: [the men are discussing the prospect of going to war with the North] And what does the captain of our troops say?
- Ashley: 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.
- Man: But Ashley, Ashley, they've insulted us!
- Charles Hamilton: You can't mean you don't want war!
- Ashley: 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.
- Gerald O'Hara: [the other men protest] Now gentlemen, Mr. Butler has been up North I hear. Don't you agree with us, Mr. Butler?
- Rhett Butler: I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen.
- Charles Hamilton: What do you mean, sir?
- Rhett Butler: I mean, Mr. Hamilton, there's not a cannon factory in the whole South.
- Man: What difference does that make, sir, to a gentleman?
- Rhett Butler: I'm afraid it's going to make a great deal of difference to a great many gentlemen, sir.
- Charles Hamilton: Are you hinting, Mr. Butler, that the Yankees can lick us?
- Rhett Butler: 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.
- Man: That's treacherous!
- Charles Hamilton: I refuse to listen to any renegade talk!
- Rhett Butler: Well, I'm sorry if the truth offends you.
- Charles Hamilton: 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.
- Rhett Butler: 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.
- [first title card]
- Title card: There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South... Here in this pretty world Gallantry took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization gone with the wind...
- Rhett Butler: 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.
- Scarlett: And I suppose you think you're the proper person.
- Rhett Butler: I might be... if the right moment ever came.
- Scarlett: You're a conceited, blackhearted varmint Rhett Butler. I don't know why I let come and see me.
- Rhett Butler: 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.
- Gerald O'Hara: It will come to you, this love of the land. There's no gettin' away from it if you're Irish.
- [first lines]
- 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!
- Scarlett: 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.
- Scarlett: 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?
- [she gets up and walks to the door, to their protestations]
- Scarlett: [relenting] Well... but remember, I warned you.
- Mammy: Lordy, Miss Melly. I sure is glad you's come.
- Melanie Hamilton: Oh, Mammy, this house won't seem the same without Bonnie. How's Miss Scarlett bearing up?
- Mammy: 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.
- Melanie Hamilton: Oh, no, Mammy, no.
- Mammy: 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.
- Melanie Hamilton: Oh, poor Captain Butler
- Mammy: 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.
- Melanie Hamilton: Stop, Mammy, don't tell me any more.
- Mammy: 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.
- Melanie Hamilton: Oh, Mammy!
- Mammy: 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?"
- Melanie Hamilton: Oh, Mammy, Mammy! He *has* lost his mind!
- Mammy: Yes'm, that's the God's truth. He ain't gonna let us bury that child. You gotta help us Miss Melly.
- Melanie Hamilton: Oh, but I can't intrude.
- Mammy: If you can't help us, who can? Mr. Rhett always set great store by your opinion. Please, Miss Melly.
- Melanie Hamilton: I'll do what I can, Mammy.
- Rhett Butler: Now that you've got your lumber mill and Frank's money, you won't come to me as you did to the jail, so I see I shall have to marry you.
- Scarlett: I never heard of such bad taste.
- [choked up about Rhett and Scarlett]
- Mammy: It like to turn my blood cold, the things they say to one another.
- Rhett Butler: You can come to my hanging and I'll remember you in my will.
- Scarlett: The only thing I'm afraid of is they won't hang you in time to pay the taxes on Tara!
- Scarlett: 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!
- Rhett Butler: Oh, Scarlett! Don't say that!
- Scarlett: 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!
- [Dropping Scarlett at Ashley's birthday party]
- Rhett Butler: You go into the arena alone. The lions are hungry for you.