Gone with the Wind 1939

Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett... Rhett, if you go, where shall I go? What shall I do?Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I dont give a damn.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 you

Rhett Butler: No, I dont think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. Thats whats wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 sin

Rhett Butler: Youre like the thief who isnt the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry hes going to jail.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 you

Scarlett: As God is my witness, as God is my witness theyre not going to lick me. Im going to live through this and when its all over, Ill never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, Ill never be hungry again.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 god

Scarlett: Rhett, dont. I shall faint.Rhett Butler: I want you to faint. This is what you were meant for. None of the fools youve ever know have kissed you like this, have they? Your Charles, or your Frank, or your stupid Ashley.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 kiss

Rhett Butler: I cant go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 life

Scarlett: Sir, you are no gentleman.Rhett Butler: And you, Miss, are no lady.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 man

Gerald OHara: Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett OHara, that Tara, that land doesnt mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth workin for, worth fightin for, worth dyin for, because its the only thing that lasts.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 work

Scarlett: I cant think about that right now. If I do, Ill go crazy. Ill think about that tomorrow.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 think

Scarlett: Cathleen, whos that?Cathleen Calvert: Who?Scarlett: That man looking at us and smiling. The nasty, dark one.Cathleen Calvert: My dear, dont you know? Thats Rhett Butler. Hes from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.Scarlett: He looks as if... as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 man

[last lines]Scarlett: Tara! Home. Ill go home. And Ill think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 home

Rhett Butler: With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 courage

[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...

— Gone with the Wind 1939 books

Scarlett: [to Rhett] If I said I was madly in love with you youd know I was lying.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 love

Rhett Butler: You still think youre the cutest trick in shoe leather.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 you

Scarlett: I only know that I love you.Rhett Butler: Thats your misfortune.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 love

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 dont love?Scarlett: How did you ever get out of jail? Why didnt they hang you?

— Gone with the Wind 1939 love

Rhett Butler: Im very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evenings over.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 end

Prissy: Mammy, heres Miss Scarletts vittles.Scarlett: You can take it all back to the kitchen; I wont eat a bite.Mammy: Yesm you is, yous gonna eat every mouthful of this.Scarlett: No... Im... NOT.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 you

Gerald OHara: It will come to you, this love of the land. Theres no gettin away from it if youre Irish.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 love

Rene Picard: Twenty dollars. Twenty dollars for Miss Maybelle Merriwether.Tony Fontaine: Twenty five dollars for Miss Fanny Elsing.Dr. Meade: Only twenty five dollars to give?Rhett Butler: One hundred and fifty dollars 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 Im 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, weve sort of shocked the Confederacy, Scarlett.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 art

Rhett Butler: So, you see I shall have to marry you.Scarlett: Ive 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 dont like your common jokes!Rhett Butler: This is an honorable proposal of marriage made at what I consider a most opportune moment. I cant go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.Scarlett: Youre coarse, and youre conceited. And I think this conversation has gone far enough.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 love

Scarlett: Rhett, how could you do this to me, and why should you go now that, after its all over and I need you, why? Why?Rhett Butler: Why? Maybe its because Ive always had a weakness for lost causes, once theyre really lost. Or maybe, maybe Im ashamed of myself. Who knows?

— Gone with the Wind 1939 self

Scarlett: [Rhett has heard Scarletts and Ashleys fight] and Sir you should have made your presence knownRhett Butler: In the middle of that beautiful love scene. Now that wouldnt 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: Dont think I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any appeal for me

— Gone with the Wind 1939 love

Rhett Butler: Take a good look my dear. Its an historic moment you can tell your grandchildren about - how you watched the Old South fall one night.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 children

Rhett Butler: And those pantalettes, I dont know a woman in Paris who wears pantalettes.Scarlett: Oh Rhett, what do they - you shouldnt talk about such things.Rhett Butler: You little hypocrite. You dont mind my knowing about them, just my talking about it.Scarlett: But really Rhett, I cant go on accepting these gifts although you are AWFULLY kind.Rhett Butler: Im not kind, Im just tempting you.Scarlett: Well if you think Ill marry you just to pay for the bonnet I wont.Rhett Butler: Dont flatter yourself. Im not a marrying man.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 mind

Rhett Butler: Open your eyes and look at me. No, I dont think I will kiss you. Although you need kissing badly. Thats whats wrong with you. You should be kissed and often and by someone who knows how.Scarlett: And I suppose you think youre the proper person.Rhett Butler: I might be... if the right moment ever came.Scarlett: Youre a conceited, blackhearted varmint Rhett Butler. I dont know why I let come and see me.Rhett Butler: Ill tell you why, Scarlett. Because Im the only man over sixteen and under sixty whos around to show you a good time.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 time

Scarlett: Great balls of fire. Dont bother me anymore, and dont call me sugar.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 fire

Rhett Butler: Why, all we have is cotton and slaves and arrogance.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 arrogance

Rhett Butler: Now that youve got your lumber mill and Franks money, you wont 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.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 money

[first lines]Brent Tarleton: What do we care if we *were* expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is gonna start any day now, so wed have left college anyhow.Stuart Tarleton: War! Isnt it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yankees actually *want* a war?Brent Tarleton: Well show em!Scarlett: Fiddle-dee-dee! War, war, war; this war talks spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides... there isnt going to be any war.Brent Tarleton: Not going to be any war?Stuart Tarleton: Why, honey, of course theres gonna be a war.Scarlett: If either of you boys says war just once again, Ill go in the house and slam the door.Brent Tarleton: But Scarlett, honey...Stuart Tarleton: Dont 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.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 war

Rhett Butler: A cats a better mother than you.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 cats

Scarlett: I can shoot straight, if I dont have to shoot too far.

— Gone with the Wind 1939

Scarlett: Great balls of fire! HICCUP! Its Rhett!

— Gone with the Wind 1939 fire

Rhett Butler: Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?Scarlett: Marriage, fun? Fiddle-dee-dee. Fun for men you mean.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 marriage

[Dropping Scarlett at Ashleys birthday party]Rhett Butler: You go into the arena alone. The lions are hungry for you.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 art

Scarlett: [to Ashley] Dreams, dreams always dreams with you, never common sense.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 dreams

Bonnie Blue Butler: London Bridge? Will it be falling down?Rhett Butler: Well, it will if you want it to, darling.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 you

Dr. Meade: [to Scarlett] Now youve got to listen to me! You must stay here!Aunt Pittypat Hamilton: Without a chaperon, Dr. Meade? It simply isnt done!Dr. Meade: Good heavens, woman! This is a war, not a garden party!

— Gone with the Wind 1939 war

Mammy: She says shes comin. I dont know why shes comin, but shes a-comin.Rhett Butler: You dont like me, Mammy.Mammy: Hmph!Rhett Butler: Now dont you argue with me. You dont. You really dont.[laughs]

— Gone with the Wind 1939 you

[repeated line]Scarlett: Fiddledee dee

— Gone with the Wind 1939

Scarlett: I cant let Tara go. I wont let it go while theres a breath left in my body.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 body

Scarlett: How do I look?Rhett Butler: Awful. Just awful.Scarlett: Why? Whats the matter?

— Gone with the Wind 1939

Rhett Butler: How fickle is woman.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 man

[Upon being widowed]Scarlett: My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 life

Scarlett: Youd rather live with that silly little fool who cant open her mouth except to say yes or no and raise a passel of mealy-mouthed brats just like her.Ashley: You mustnt say unkind things about Melanie.Scarlett: Who are you to tell me I mustnt? You led me on... you made me believe you wanted to marry me.Ashley: Now Scarlett, be fair. I never at any time...Scarlett: You did, its true, you did.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 time

Scarlett: But you are a blockade runner.Rhett Butler: For profit, and profit only.Scarlett: Are you tryin to tell me you dont believe in the cause?Rhett Butler: I believe in Rhett Butler, hes the only cause I know.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 believe

Mammy: It aint fittin... it aint fittin. It jes aint fittin... It aint fittin.

— Gone with the Wind 1939

[to Scarlett]Rhett Butler: Ive always thought a good lashing with a buggy whip would benefit you immensely.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 men

[choked up about Rhett and Scarlett]Mammy: It makes my blood run cold, the things they say to one another.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 blood

[choked up about Rhett and Scarlett]Mammy: He went out and shot that poor pony, and, for a minute, I thought he was gonna shoot himself.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 self

Scarlett: Shes being just like Pa. Just Like Pa!

— Gone with the Wind 1939 being

Mammy: [about Belle Watling] Who dat? I aint never seen hair that color before. Do you know a dyed haired woman?Scarlett: Wish I knew that one. Shed get my money for me!

— Gone with the Wind 1939 money

Rhett Butler: Dont give yourself airs, Scarlett.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 self

Rhett Butler: [to Scarlett] Open your eyes and look at me. No, I dont think I will kiss you, although you need kissing badly.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 sin

Melanie Hamilton: Whatever happens, Ill love you just as I do now until I die.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 love

Field Hand: Quittin time! Quittin time!Big Sam - Field Foreman: Who says its quittin time?Field Hand: I says its quittin time!Big Sam - Field Foreman: Is the foreman. Is the one who says when its quittin time at Tara. Quittin time!

— Gone with the Wind 1939 time

Carreen: I guess things like hands and ladies dont matter so much anymore.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 die

Scarlett: You low-down, cowardly, nasty thing you! They were right! Everybody was right! You - You arent a gentleman.Rhett Butler: A minor point at such a moment. Here, if anyone lays a hand on that Nag shoot him but dont make a mistake and shoot the Nag.Scarlett: Go on! I want you to go! I hope a cannonball lands slap on you! I hope your blown into a million pieces! I...Rhett Butler: Nevermind the rest. I follow your general idea. And when Im dead on the altar of my country I hope your conscience hurts you. Goodbye, Scarlett.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 hope

Bonnie Blue Butler: Daddy, let me, let me!

— Gone with the Wind 1939

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.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 books

Cathleen Calvert: Scarlett! My dear, he isnt received. Hes had to spend most of his time at war because his folks in Charleston wont even speak to him. He was expelled from West Point, hes so fast, and then theres that business about that girl he wouldnt marry.Scarlett: Tell, tell!Cathleen Calvert: Well, he took her out buggy riding in the late afternoon without a chaperon, and then... and then he refused to marry her![Whispers in Scarletts ear]Scarlett: [Gasps, then whispers in Cathleens ear]Cathleen Calvert: No. But she was ruined, just the same!

— Gone with the Wind 1939 war

Scarlett: Atlanta!Mammy: Savannah would be better for ya. Youd just get in trouble in Atlanta.Scarlett: What trouble are you talking about?Mammy: You know what trouble Is talkin bout. Is talking bout Mr. Ashley Wilkes. Hell be comin to Atlanta when he gets his leave, and you sittin there waitin for him, just like a spider. He belongs to Miss Melanie...Scarlett: You go pack my things like Mother said.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 ya

Prissy: Lawzy, we got to have a doctor. I dont know nothin bout birthin babies.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 law

Scarlett: Now I didnt 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 havent forgiven you!Rhett Butler: Oh, Scarlett! Dont 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!

— Gone with the Wind 1939 hope

Rhett Butler: What a woman.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 man

Scarlett: Oh Ashley, Ashley, I love you.Ashley: Scarlett...Scarlett: I love you, I do.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 love

Scarlett: Now isnt this better than sitting at a table? A girl hasnt got but two sides to her at the table.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 girl

Scarlett: Ooh, if I just wasnt a lady, WHAT wouldnt I tell that varmint.

— Gone with the Wind 1939

Pork: Great Gee-hossefat!

— Gone with the Wind 1939 great

Scarlett: Go! Go![She whips the horse many times, and it falls down dead]Prissy: Its dead! Its dead!

— Gone with the Wind 1939 time

Melanie Hamilton: So, youve got my husband intoxicated again, Captain Butler. Well, bring him in!Tom - Yankee Captain: Im sorry, Mrs. Wilkes. Your husbands under arrest.Melanie Hamilton: 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.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 men

Tom - Yankee Captain: Dont touch him. Hes under arrest!Rhett Butler: Now, Tom! What do you want to arrest him for? Ive seen him drunker! Ive seen you drunker! And youve seen me...Tom - Yankee Captain: He can lie in the gutter for all I care! Im not a policeman.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 man

Scarlett: Why dont you just say it, you coward? Youre afraid to marry me. Youd rather live with that silly little fool who cant open her mouth except to say, yes and no and raise a passle of mealy-mouthed brats just like her!Ashley: You mustnt say things like that about Melanie.Scarlett: Who are you to tell me I mustnt! You led me on! You made me believe you wanted to marry me!Ashley: Now, Scarlett be fair. I never at any time...Scarlett: You did! Its true! You did! Ill hate till I die! I cant think of anything bad enough to call you![she slaps him]

— Gone with the Wind 1939 war

Rhett Butler: You can come to my hanging and Ill remember you in my will.Scarlett: The only thing Im afraid of is they wont hang you in time to pay the taxes on Tara!

— Gone with the Wind 1939 time

Ashley: [to Scarlet] I never want you to be anything but completely happy.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 happy

[Letter to Scarlett from General Wade Hampton on the death of her husband Charles Hamilton: Though he was not vouchsafed a heros death upon the field of glory, he was nonetheless a hero, dying in camp here of pneumonia, following an attack of the measles]

— Gone with the Wind 1939 death

Rhett Butler: The right moment everyday.Scarlett: Youre a conceited, black heated vulture and I dont know I let you come in and see me.Rhett Butler: Ill tell you why, Scarlett. The war cant last much longer.Scarlett: Really, Rhett. Why?Rhett Butler: Theres a little battle going on right now.

— Gone with the Wind 1939 war

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