FOLK in Classic Quotes

1  Don't go bragging on me in front of folks.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

2  The backwoods folks and the swamp dwellers owned neither horses nor mules.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

3  The Calverts are good folk, all of them, for all the old man marrying a Yankee.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

4  "Some folks thinks as how Ah kin fly," grumbled Mammy, shuffling up the stairs.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V

5  All of those shadowy folks whose blood flowed in her veins seemed to move quietly in the moonlit room.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

6  Their dark eyes gleamed expectantly, for praying with their white folks was one of the events of the day.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

7  It was not often that Mr. McRae had the opportunity to talk about war, the way his women folks shushed him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

8  Many small farmers from far across the river were present and Crackers from the backwoods and a scattering of swamp folk.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL

9  She shuddered, turning her eyes from Cathleen as she realized how narrow was the chasm between quality folk and poor whites.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL

10  His name is Rhett Butler and he's from Charleston and his folks are some of the nicest people there, but they won't even speak to him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

11  But the planters' ladies and the planters' slaves could not overlook the fact that he was not born a gentleman, even if their men folks could.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

12  Why, Scarlett, when folks heard he was intending to go to Virginia as an army surgeon, all the ladies signed a petition begging him to stay here.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

13  She knew it was beneath the dignity of quality white folks to pay the slightest attention to what a darky said when she was just grumbling to herself.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

14  The darkies were hanging from the rafters, popeyed, they were so scared, but Ma was talking to the horse like he was folks and he was eating out of her hand.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

15  The Carpetbaggers were looting the town, many honest folk were driven from their homes and did not know where to look for their next meal, and a negro sat in the lieutenant governor's chair.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII

16  When Gerald was forty-three, so thickset of body and florid of face that he looked like a hunting squire out of a sporting print, it came to him that Tara, dear though it was, and the County folk, with their open hearts and open houses, were not enough.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

17  The garrison families had a right to be bewildered for most of them were quiet, well-bred folk, lonely in a hostile land, anxious to go home to the North, a little ashamed of the riffraff whose rule they were forced to uphold--an infinitely better class than that of Scarlett's associates.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIX