# Quote — Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

> Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

- Author: [Margaret Mitchell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-mitchell.md)
- Book: [Gone with the Wind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-mitchell/gone-with-the-wind.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-mitchell/gone-with-the-wind/fighting-is-like

## More from this book

> "In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out. At least, it has been interesting, if not comfortable, to witness a Gotterdammerung."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-mitchell/gone-with-the-wind/in-the-end.md)

> I cannot understand why I did not desert. It was all the purest insanity. But it’s in one’s blood. Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-mitchell/gone-with-the-wind/i-cannot-understand.md)

> She was seeing through Rhett's eyes the passing, not of a woman but of a legend — the gentle, self-effacing but steel-spined women on whom the South had builded its house in war and to whose proud and loving arms it had returned in defeat.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-mitchell/gone-with-the-wind/she-was-seeing.md)