Quotes by Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

American writer

Lived from: 1900 - 1949

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 8 november 1900 Died: 16 august 1949

  • The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]

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  • Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
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  • Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
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  • I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
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  • Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
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  • The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]
    ― Margaret Mitchell
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  • The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
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  • Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
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  • What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
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What are the most famous quotes from Margaret Mitchell?

The two most famous quotes from Margaret Mitchell are:

  • "Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!"
  • "Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed."

When did Margaret Mitchell live?

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900 and died in the year 1949.