GOLD in Classic Quotes

1  I've made money enough, and it's in English banks and in gold.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

2  And then she saw the bright gleam of her wide gold wedding ring.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

3  "We need more gold and I am asking you for it," the doctor continued.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

4  Scarlett caught a fleeting glimpse and saw that it was a broad gold ring.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X

5  But--I owe it to the Cause--I--I couldn't think of myself when you were offering so much in gold.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

6  The gold will be melted and the stones sold and the money used to buy drugs and other medical supplies.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

7  Scarlet and gold sashes swung to and fro, sabers glittered and banged against shining boots, spurs rattled and jingled.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

8  No one but a gentleman of refinement and thoughtfulness would ever have thought how it broke my heart to-- I'll send my gold chain instead.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X

9  There was no one there so handsome, thought Scarlett, as she marked how graceful was his negligent pose and how the sun gleamed on his gold hair and mustache.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

10  The insult had occurred on a day when Pitty wished to draw five hundred dollars from her estate, of which he was trustee, to invest in a non-existent gold mine.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

11  The grinning little man was coming to their booth now, his basket heavy on his arm, and as he passed Rhett Butler a handsome gold cigar case was thrown carelessly into the basket.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

12  All she could think of was that she loved him--everything about him, from the proud lift of his gold head to his slender dark boots, loved his laughter even when it mystified her, loved his bewildering silences.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

13  Her heavy earbobs with their long gold fringe hung down from loops of tidily netted hair, swinging close to her brown eyes, eyes that had the still gleam of a forest pool in winter when brown leaves shine up through quiet water.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

14  Scarlett's first thought was one of deep thankfulness that mourning forbade her wearing her precious earbobs and the heavy gold chain that had been Grandma Robillard's and the gold and black enameled bracelets and the garnet brooch.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

15  They were such resplendent uniforms, brave with shining buttons and dazzling with twined gold braid on cuffs and collars, the red and yellow and blue stripes on the trousers, for the different branches of the service, setting off the gray to perfection.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

16  There were parties and balls and bazaars every week and war weddings without number, with the grooms on furlough in bright gray and gold braid and the brides in blockade-run finery, aisles of crossed swords, toasts drunk in blockaded champagne and tearful farewells.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

17  Scarlett could not imagine her mother's hands without her gold thimble or her rustling figure unaccompanied by the small negro girl whose sole function in life was to remove basting threads and carry the rosewood sewing box from room to room, as Ellen moved about the house superintending the cooking, the cleaning and the wholesale clothes-making for the plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III