Rhett Butler Quotes

• Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Wind, Butlers, Crisis

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.673, Hamilton Books

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• 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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Selfish, Silly, Love You

  "Fictional character: Rhett". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sorry, Wind, Jail

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• Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Night, Guitar, Play

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.541, Hamilton Books

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• Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Selfish, Yankees, Helping

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• Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.290, Hamilton Books

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• Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. . . . All we've got is cotton and slaves, and arrogance." "I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars and dreams of victory."

  Clark Gable

  Dream, War, Winning

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Badass, Wind

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Romantic, Best Love, Kissing

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.195, Hamilton Books

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• I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Weakness, Causes, Lost

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Heart, Kissing, Impatient

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.196, Hamilton Books

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• Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Lost Love, Reputation, Realizing

  1936 Rhett Butler. Gone with the Wind, ch.9.

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• God help the man who ever really loves you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love You, Men, Wind

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.544, Hamilton Books

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• With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Courage, Wind, Gone

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Grace, Want, Charm

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• Only interested in himself and profiting from the war as an unscrupulous entrepreneur, and not in being a patriot: "I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me."

  Clark Gable

  War, Believe, Mean

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• Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  New Experiences, Mind, Butlers

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• Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Beautiful, Heart, Mean

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.541, Hamilton Books

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• Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.

  Ted Turner

  Men, Littles, Butlers

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• Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Men, Want, Butlers

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.156, Hamilton Books

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• I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Husband, Wind, Waiting

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.801, 谷月社

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• Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Selfish, Determined, Helpless

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.249, Hamilton Books

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• I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

  Anne Rice

  Movie, Vampire, Casting

  "A Look Inside Hollywood and the Movies : Interview With the Vampire's Picky Creator". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. August 22, 1993.

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• A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Baby, Ugly, Faces

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.494, Hamilton Books

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• I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

  Marlon Brando

  Movie, Film History, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Don Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1972.

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