Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Folks say I’m good,” he remarked whimsically upon one occasion, “but I sometimes wish the Lord had made me only half as good and put the rest of it into looks. But there, I reckon He knew what He was about, as a good Captain should. Some of us have to be homely, or the purty ones – like Mistress Blythe here – wouldn’t show up so well.”

— L.M. Montgomery

452. “If I had my way I’d shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne,” said Gilbert in the tone that meant “danger ahead.” “Then.”

— L.M. Montgomery

453. “I wonder if perfume could set a man drunk.”

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454. “I wonder,” said Miss Oliver, “if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the ‘many inventions’ neither lessen nor increase it.” “After.”

— L.M. Montgomery

455. “I kind of think she’s one of the sort you can do anything with if you only get her to love you.”

— L.M. Montgomery

456. “They can laugh when things go wrong. I like that. Anyone can laugh when it’s all smooth sailing.”

— L.M. Montgomery

457. “Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon.”

— L.M. Montgomery

458. “As they dashed into the kitchen the light seemed to vanish, as if blown out by some mighty breath; the awful cloud rolled over the sun and a darkness as of late twilight fell across the world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

459. “It’s snowing some today and Marilla says the old woman in the sky is shaking her feather beds. Is the old woman in the sky God’s wife, Anne? I want to know. “Mrs.”

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460. “People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,′ said Anne.”

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461. “I believe I’ve put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.”

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462. “But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor – which is simply another name for a sense of fitness of things;.”

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463. “One forgets all through the year how lovely spring really is and so it comes as a surprise every time.”

— L.M. Montgomery

464. “Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither.”

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465. “But Gilbert’s visits were not what they once were. Anne almost dreaded them. It was very disconcerting to look up in the midst of a sudden silence and find Gilbert’s hazel eyes fixed upon her with a quite unmistakable expression in their grave depths; and it was still more disconcerting to find herself blushing hotly and uncomfortably under his gaze, just as if – just as if – well, it was very embarrassing.”

— L.M. Montgomery

466. “You’ll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.”

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467. “It is never quite safe to think we have done with life.”

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468. “We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as ‘wasted’ lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life...”

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469. “Cousin Jimmy thinks I did perfectly right. Cousin Jimmy would think I had done perfectly right if I had murdered Andrew and buried him in the Land of Uprightness. It’s very nice to have one friend like that, though too many wouldn’t be good for you.”

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470. “How beautiful it was, lying embowered in the twilight of the old trees; the tips of the loftiest spruces came out in purple silhouettes against the north-weatersn sky of rose and amber; down behind it the Blair Water dreamed in silver; the Wind Woman had folded her misty bat-wings in a valley of sunset and stillness that lay over the world like a blessing. Emily felt sure that everything would be all right.”

— L.M. Montgomery

471. “You’ve all been so sure that life is good that I’ve never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.”

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472. “It’s the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.”

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473. “Rilla’s heart skipped a beat – or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.”

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474. “I know I haven’t much sense or sobriety, but I’ve got what is ever so much better – the knack of making people like me.”

— L.M. Montgomery

475. “Some sounds are so exquisite – far more exquisite than anything seen. Daff’s purr there on my rug, for instance – and the snap and crackle of the fire – and the squeaks and scrambles of mice that are having a jamboree behind the wainscot.”

— L.M. Montgomery

476. “Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.”

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477. “Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?”

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478. “Oh, WHY can’t boys be just sensible!”

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479. “I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl’s life.”

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480. “Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.”

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481. “Walter’s eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.”

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482. “Captain Jim thought women were delightful creatures, who ought to have the vote, and everything else they wanted, bless their hearts; but he did not believe they could write.”

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483. “If I had my way I’d shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne,” said Gilbert.”

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484. “Emotion shook Rilla from head to foot. Joy – happiness – sorrow – fear – every passion that had wrung her heart in those four long years seemed to surge up in her soul for a moment as the deeps of being were stirred. She had tried to speak; at first voice would not come. Then – “Yeth,” said Rilla.”

— L.M. Montgomery

485. “The trouble with you people is that you don’t laugh enough.”

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486. “Satirize wickedness if you must – but pity weakness.”

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487. “Ah, children are not what they were in my young days. They listened to their parents then.”

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488. “I’ve always thought nobody understood me quite as well as I understood myself.”

— L.M. Montgomery

489. “I don’t know which is worse – to have somebody you DON’T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.”

— L.M. Montgomery

490. “She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms – if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept, something of her, intangible and invisible, yet nonetheless real, did not remain behind like a voiceful memory.”

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491. “Felicity, if I die from the effects of eating sawdust pudding, flavoured with needles, you’ll be sorry you ever said such a thing to your poor old uncle,” said Uncle Roger reproachfully.”

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492. “You couldn’t really expect a person to pray very well the first time she tried, could you?”

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493. “I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it.”

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494. “Chapter 15 A Tempest in the School Teapot.”

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495. “Marilla Cuthbert was driving into the yard as Anne returned from the house, and the latter flew to get tea ready. They discussed the matter at the tea table. “I’ll be glad when the auction is over,” said Marilla. “It is too much responsibility having so much stock about the place and nobody but that unreliable Martin to look after them. He has never come back yet and he promised that he would certainly be back last.”

— L.M. Montgomery

496. “The stars twinkled through the fir-trees and right and left the harbour range-lights shone like great earth stars. Presently a moon rose and there was a sparkling trail over the harbour like a lady’s silken dress.”

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497. “Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.”

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498. “But what is the use of being an independent old maid if you can’t be silly when you want to, and when it doesn’t hurt anybody? A person must have some compensations.”

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499. “Still Anne said nothing, several times over.”

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500. “Soul-ache doesn’t worry folks near as much as stomach-ache.”

— L.M. Montgomery