Authors — Quotes

L.M. Montgomery Quotes: 35

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
Anne of Green Gables
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
Anne of Green Gables
Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
Anne of Avonlea
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
Anne of Green Gables
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
Anne of Green Gables
After all,"Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
Anne of Avonlea
Anne laughed."I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.
Anne of the Island
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
Anne of Green Gables
I'd like to add some beauty to life,"said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
Anne's House of Dreams
And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
Rilla of Ingleside
I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.
Anne of Green Gables
When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.
Anne of the Island
When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
Anne of Green Gables
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.
Chronicles of Avonlea
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Anne of Green Gables
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
Anne of the Island
Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
Emily's Quest
I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Anne of Green Gables
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…
Anne of Windy Poplars
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn,"where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Anne of the Island
Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them."-Anne Shirley
Anne of Green Gables
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?
Anne of Green Gables
My pen shall heal, not hurt.
Emily Climbs
...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
Anne of the Island
...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?
Anne of Green Gables
Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
Anne of Avonlea
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
Tell me this--if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew you'd never have a line published--would you still go on writing--would you?''Of course I would,' said Emily disdainfully. 'Why, I have to write--I can't help it at times--I've just got to.
Emily of New Moon
Despair is a free man--hope isa slave.
The Blue Castle
Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
Anne's House of Dreams
Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.
Anne of the Island