Well, there's one line I was really 'spectin' one of our Southern Belles to come up with (and especially our pseudo-Southern Belle late of Atlanta ). It just happens to be the closing line from what many consider to be one of the greatest films of all time. The film was even cited earlier on this thread, and by an Upunderer yet! thanks, Max!

"After all, tomorrow is another day..."

--Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind

Btw, sjmaxq, this quote, according to Bartleby's, is from both the book and movie. However, the Clark Gable quote, "And, frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," was tailored for the film by the screenwriter:

>The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.


NUMBER: 40050
QUOTATION: 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.... I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can’t. My dear, I don’t give a damn.
ATTRIBUTION: Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949), U.S. novelist. Rhett Butler, in Gone with the Wind, vol. 2, pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936).

In the 1939 movie (screenplay by Sidney Howard), the final words of Rhett’s farewell to Scarlett O’Hara are “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn!” with the emphasis on “give” to soften the impact of the “damn.”

The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. <