Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

— L.M. Montgomery

2. “Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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3. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

4. “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”

— L.M. Montgomery

5. “It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

6. “In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well.”

— L.M. Montgomery

7. “It was November – the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.”

— L.M. Montgomery

8. “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

— L.M. Montgomery

9. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

— L.M. Montgomery

10. “In this world you’ve just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”

— L.M. Montgomery

11. “Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.”

— L.M. Montgomery

12. “We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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13. “Nothing worth while is every easy come by.”

— L.M. Montgomery

14. “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”

— L.M. Montgomery

15. “Dear old world’, she murmured, ’you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”

— L.M. Montgomery

16. “People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”

— L.M. Montgomery

17. “Oh, it’s delightful to have ambitions. I’m so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them – that’s the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”

— L.M. Montgomery

18. “It’s dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.”

— L.M. Montgomery

19. “We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”

— L.M. Montgomery

20. “A bosom friend – an intimate friend, you know – a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.”

— L.M. Montgomery

21. “We ought always to try to influence others for good.”

— L.M. Montgomery

22. “Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it’s what they bring to the world that really counts.”

— L.M. Montgomery

23. “It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

24. “Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.”

— L.M. Montgomery

25. “God’s in His heaven, alls right with the world’, whispered Anne softly.”

— L.M. Montgomery

26. “I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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27. “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

28. “There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.”

— L.M. Montgomery

29. “I feel as though someone’s handed me the moon and I don’t exactly know what to do with it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

30. “Which would you rather be if you had the choice – divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”

— L.M. Montgomery

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31. “Gilbert, I’m afraid I’m scandalously in love with you.”

— L.M. Montgomery

32. “Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

33. “Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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34. “As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.”

— L.M. Montgomery

35. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”

— L.M. Montgomery

36. “If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you’ll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”

— L.M. Montgomery

37. “The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.”

— L.M. Montgomery

38. “Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.”

— L.M. Montgomery

39. “Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else – there never could be anybody else for me but you. I’ve loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”

— L.M. Montgomery

40. “Despair is a free man – hope is a slave.”

— L.M. Montgomery

41. “There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.”

— L.M. Montgomery

42. “Even when I’m alone I have real good company – dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships – and nice, jolly little times with people.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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43. “Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

44. “There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I’m such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn’t be half so interesting.”

— L.M. Montgomery

45. “There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.”

— L.M. Montgomery

46. “A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing...”

— L.M. Montgomery

47. “I can’t cheer up – I don’t want to cheer up. It’s nicer to be miserable!”

— L.M. Montgomery

48. “You have the itch for writing born in you. It’s quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

49. “But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.”

— L.M. Montgomery

50. “She wanted to be alone – to think things out – to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.”

— L.M. Montgomery