FLOWER in Classic Quotes

1  They have taken the flower of our manhood and the laughter of our young women.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI

2  Even the banked flowers below the pictures of Mr. Davis and Mr. Stephens displeased her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

3  Not all the flowers of the town were standing in tribute to the leaders of the Confederacy.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

4  "'Accept only candy and flowers from gentlemen, dearie,'" he mimicked, and she burst into a giggle.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

5  You think it's riding a pretty horse and having the girls throw flowers at you and coming home a hero.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

6  Rhett Butler had brought her a yellow shawl from Havana several months before, a shawl gaudily embroidered with birds and flowers in magenta and blue.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

7  In her top drawer was a handkerchief just like this, one that Rhett Butler had lent her only yesterday to wrap about the stems of wild flowers they had picked.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

8  She noted how the leaves on the trees were still dark green but dry and heavily coated with red dust, and how withered and sad the untended flowers in the front yard looked.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX

9  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

10  Hoops were out now, and the new styles were charming with the skirts pulled back from the front and draped over bustles, and on the bustles were wreaths of flowers and bows and cascades of lace.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII

11  But she was not listening, for she was regarding herself pleasedly in the mirror again, thinking she would wear the bonnet to the hospital this very afternoon and take flowers to the convalescent officers.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

12  A widow had to wear hideous black dresses without even a touch of braid to enliven them, no flower or ribbon or lace or even jewelry, except onyx mourning brooches or necklaces made from the deceased's hair.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

13  She looked hungrily at the frocks floating by, butter-yellow watered silks with garlands of rosebuds; pink satins with eighteen flounces edged with tiny black velvet ribbons; baby blue taffeta, ten yards in the skirt and foamy with cascading lace; exposed bosoms; seductive flowers.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

14  Tea roses tucked behind pink ears, cape jessamine and bud roses in round little garlands over cascades of side curls, blossoms thrust demurely into satin sashes, flowers that before the night was over would find their way into the breast pockets of gray uniforms as treasured souvenirs.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

15  I want to say--I mean, I've thought for a long time that--that not only should we pull up the weeds but we should plant flowers on-- I--I don't care what you think but every time I go to take flowers to dear Charlie's grave, I always put some on the grave of an unknown Yankee which is near by.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI

16  Above them was an enormous flag and, beneath, on long tables was the loot of the gardens of the town, ferns, banks of roses, crimson and yellow and white, proud sheaths of golden gladioli, masses of varicolored nasturtiums, tall stiff hollyhocks rearing deep maroon and creamy heads above the other flowers.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

17  For a timeless moment she stood there and in the still hot hush of the summer morning every irrelevant sound and scent seemed magnified, the quick thudding of her heart, like a drumbeat, the slight rough rustling of the magnolia leaves, the far-off plaintive sound of a swamp bird and the sweet smell of the flowers outside the window.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI