WAR in Classic Quotes

1  Of course there would be no war and the men all knew it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

2  Let's don't be too hot headed and let's don't have any war.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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3  "Why, honey, of course there's going to be a war," said Stuart.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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4  "You know there isn't going to be any war," said Scarlett, bored.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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5  If you say 'war' just once more, I'll go in the house and shut the door.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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6  The Troop met twice a week in Jonesboro to drill and to pray for the war to begin.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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7  If Gerald once got on the subject of war and secession, it would be hours before he relinquished it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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8  Having maneuvered them away from the boring subject of war, she went back with interest to their immediate situation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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9  "Maybe there won't be any war," Mrs. Tarleton temporized, her mind diverted completely from the Wilkeses' odd marriage habits.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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10  The mules could not be spared to go off to war, even if they had been acceptable for the Troop, which they emphatically were not.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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11  "Um," said Scarlett, her sharp eyes noting that Ashley, who had not risen to take part in the war talk, was smiling up at Melanie.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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12  There had been no talk of politics or impending war all during the morning, because of Mr. Wilkes' request that the ladies should not be bored.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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13  These latter young men were as anxious to fight the Yankees, should war come, as were their richer neighbors; but the delicate question of money arose.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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14  Scarlett knew her mother cared nothing at all about war and politics and thought them masculine matters about which no lady could intelligently concern herself.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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15  The troop of cavalry had been organized three months before, the very day that Georgia seceded from the Union, and since then the recruits had been whistling for war.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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16  Miss Pitty told us they hadn't intended announcing it till next year, because Miss Melly hasn't been very well; but with all the war talk going around, everybody in both families thought it would be better to get married soon.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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17  He was happy, pleasantly excited over the prospect of spending the day shouting about the Yankees and the war, and proud of his three pretty daughters in their bright spreading hoop skirts beneath foolish little lace parasols.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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