"“The trouble with most of us Southerners,” continued Rhett Butler, “is that we either don’t travel enough or we don’t…"

"Before the war there had been few cotton factories, woolen mills, arsenals and machine shops south of Maryland, a fac…"

"In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains a…"

"A dusk of the gods. Unfortunately, we Southerners did think we were gods."

"It isn't that I mind splitting logs here in the mud, but I do mind what it stands for. I do mind, very much, the loss…"

"I cannot understand why I did not desert. It was all the purest insanity. But it’s in one’s blood. Southerners can ne…"

"There ain’t nothin’ that walks can lick us, any more than it could lick him, not Yankees nor Carpetbaggers nor hard t…"

"Hardships make or break people."

"These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable…"

"Drink and dissipation had done their work on the coin-clean profile and now it was no longer the head of a young paga…"