Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “That water looks as if it was smiling at me.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

453. “Revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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. “Somehow, things never are so good when they’re thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

457. “Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

460. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

462. “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.”

— L.M. Montgomery

463. “Jane says she will devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband won’t pay you anything, and growls if you ask for a share in the egg and butter money.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

465. “We mustn’t let next week rob us of this week’s joy.”

— L.M. Montgomery

466. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

468. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

471. “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...”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

473. “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.”

— L.M. Montgomery

474. “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.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

480. “I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

482. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

484. “There had been no snow up to this time, but as Diana crossed the old log bridge on her homeward way the white flakes were beginning to flutter down over the fields and woods, russet and gray in their dreamless sleep. Soon the far-away slopes and hills were dim and wraith-like through their gauzy scarfing, as if pale autumn had flung a misty bridal veil over her hair and was waiting for her wintry bridegroom.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

486. “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

487. “Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

490. “The trouble with you, Anne, is that you’re thinking too much about yourself. You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable to her,” said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice. Anne instantly realized this.”

— L.M. Montgomery

491. “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.”

— L.M. Montgomery

492. “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.”

— L.M. Montgomery

493. “It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted.”

— L.M. Montgomery

494. “There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don’t think about things and then – we remember – and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been.”

— L.M. Montgomery

495. “I’ve no doubt, enjoying himself same as ever. Just like a man.”

— L.M. Montgomery

496. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

499. “But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one’s imagination of it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

500. “Oh, no, you did not, Mrs. Dr. dear,” said loyal Susan, determined to protect Anne from herself.”

— L.M. Montgomery