ACCEPT in Classic Quotes

1  I simply can't tell him I won't accept it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

2  Surely someone will turn up to accept your interesting proposition.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV

3  "It will serve you right if that sly piece does accept one of you," she said.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

4  Just what the loser would do, should Scarlett accept either one of them, the twins did not ask.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

5  Or maybe she'll accept both of you, and then you'll have to move to Utah, if the Mormons'll have you--which I doubt.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

6  The Old Guard signified their disapproval by a sheaf of cards, regretting their inability to accept Scarlett's kind invitation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIX

7  They had continued resisting all efforts to force them to bow down and accept the dictates of Washington as their own state law.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVII

8  The little presents he brought her from Nassau, little oddments that a lady could accept with propriety, were what mattered most to her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

9  And girls who knew very well that a lady always refused a gentleman the first three times he proposed rushed headlong to accept the first time.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII

10  But they were as fiercely proud in their poverty as the planters were in their wealth, and they would accept nothing that smacked of charity from their rich neighbors.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

11  Frank, in common with all men he knew, felt that a wife should be guided by her husband's superior knowledge, should accept his opinions in full and have none of her own.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI

12  For a moment her mind refused to accept the truth, but when realization finally came to her that Prissy knew no more about midwifery than she did, anger went over her like a flame.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI

13  At first, strangers in a strange town, they were glad to accept invitations to the lavish entertainments of the wealthy and hospitable Mrs. Butler, but they soon drifted out of her set.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIX

14  Candy and flowers, dear," Ellen had said time and again, "and perhaps a book of poetry or an album or a small bottle of Florida water are the only things a lady may accept from a gentleman.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

15  He arranged his face in what he fancied was an expression of careless unconcern and cautiously returned Scarlett's pinch to show that he was man of the world enough to understand and accept her reproof.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

16  It was the tradition of the County that neighbor helped neighbor and they refused to accept a penny from Scarlett, telling her that she would do the same for them and she could pay them back, in kind, next year when Tara was again producing.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

17  The upshot of the matter was that every planter agreed to pay for equipping his own sons and a certain number of the others, but the manner of handling the arrangements was such that the less wealthy members of the outfit could accept horses and uniforms without offense to their honor.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I