Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “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.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

454. “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.”

— L.M. Montgomery

455. “And there was always the bend in the road!”

— L.M. Montgomery

456. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

459. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

461. “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

462. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

468. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

470. “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

471. “Oh, what I know about myself isn’t really worth telling, said Anne eagerly. If you’ll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you’ll think it ever so much more interesting.”

— L.M. Montgomery

472. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

474. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

476. “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

477. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

479. “Jealousy and stupidity really do most of the harm that is done in the world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

480. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

486. “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

487. “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

488. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

490. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

494. “When he said good evening you felt that it was a good evening and that it was partly his doing that it was.”

— L.M. Montgomery

495. “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

496. “I don’t know whether it is any use forgiving people or not. Yes, it is, it makes you feel more comfortable yourself.”

— L.M. Montgomery

497. “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

498. “First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.”

— L.M. Montgomery

499. “If you believe in a thing it doesn’t matter whether it exists or not.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery