Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.”

— L.M. Montgomery

52. “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

53. “I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the best does.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

55. “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

56. “A house isn’t a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.”

— L.M. Montgomery

57. “It never rains but it pours.”

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

65. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

67. “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

68. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

70. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

73. “Anne Shirley. Anne with an “e.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

75. “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

76. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

78. “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

79. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

84. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

93. “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

94. “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

95. “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

96. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

98. “I don’t really care what people think about me if they don’t let me see it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

99. “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

100. “Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,? said Anne.”

— L.M. Montgomery