Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You have the itch for writing born in you. It’s quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

52. “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

53. “That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.”

— L.M. Montgomery

54. “The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”

— L.M. Montgomery

55. “I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.”

— L.M. Montgomery

56. “It never rains but it pours.”

— L.M. Montgomery

57. “Houses are like people – some you like and some you don’t like – and once in a while there is one you love.”

— L.M. Montgomery

58. “It’s so hard to get up again – although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?”

— L.M. Montgomery

59. “Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.”

— L.M. Montgomery

60. “Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.”

— L.M. Montgomery

61. “We belong to the race that knows Joseph.”

— L.M. Montgomery

62. “When I left Queen’s my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the best does.”

— L.M. Montgomery

63. “I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

64. “Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.”

— L.M. Montgomery

65. “I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.”

— L.M. Montgomery

66. “Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.”

— L.M. Montgomery

67. “But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”

— L.M. Montgomery

68. “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

69. “The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

70. “Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”

— L.M. Montgomery

71. “Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.”

— L.M. Montgomery

72. “It was November – the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.”

— L.M. Montgomery

73. “All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.”

— L.M. Montgomery

74. “Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.”

— L.M. Montgomery

75. “Anne Shirley. Anne with an “e.”

— L.M. Montgomery

76. “You’re never safe from being surprised until you’re dead.”

— L.M. Montgomery

77. “Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn’t get the things themselves but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. – Anne Shirley.”

— L.M. Montgomery

78. “Besides, I’ve been feeling a little blue – just a pale, elusive azure. It isn’t serious enough for anything darker.”

— L.M. Montgomery

79. “I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.”

— L.M. Montgomery

80. “Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it’s such an interesting world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

81. “Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”

— L.M. Montgomery

82. “I’d rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.”

— L.M. Montgomery

83. “It is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.”

— L.M. Montgomery

84. “Anne “felt instinctively” that romance was peeping at her around a corner.”

— L.M. Montgomery

85. “She will love deeply – suffer terribly – she will have glorious moments to compensate.”

— L.M. Montgomery

86. “Don’t you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.”

— L.M. Montgomery

87. “The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.”

— L.M. Montgomery

88. “I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.”

— L.M. Montgomery

89. “Don’t try to write anything you can’t feel – it will be a failure – ’echoes nothing worth.”

— L.M. Montgomery

90. “What a spineless thing I must be not to have one enemy!”

— L.M. Montgomery

91. “Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise – which showed how young she was.”

— L.M. Montgomery

92. “She felt a wonderful lightness of spirit, a soul-stirring joy in mere existence.”

— L.M. Montgomery

93. “Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.”

— L.M. Montgomery

94. “Desire grows by what it feeds on.”

— L.M. Montgomery

95. “Proverbs are all very fine when there’s nothing to worry you, but when you’re in real trouble, they’re not a bit of help.”

— L.M. Montgomery

96. “March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.”

— L.M. Montgomery

97. “The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only – a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.”

— L.M. Montgomery

98. “Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.”

— L.M. Montgomery

99. “It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.”

— L.M. Montgomery

100. “I’ve loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”

— L.M. Montgomery