Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Somehow, things never are so good when they’re thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

454. “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

455. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

458. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

461. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

465. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

470. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

472. “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

473. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

475. “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

476. “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

477. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

480. “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

481. “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

482. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

484. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

486. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

491. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

493. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

496. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

498. “Some women’s intended from the start to be old maids, and I’m afraid I’m one of them, Miss Shirley, ma’am, because I’ve awful little patience with the men.”

— L.M. Montgomery

499. “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

500. “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