Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 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. “I can’t cheer up – I don’t want to cheer up. It’s nicer to be miserable!”

— L.M. Montgomery

53. “But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.”

— L.M. Montgomery

54. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

57. “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

58. “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

59. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

61. “It never rains but it pours.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

64. “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

65. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

68. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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72. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

75. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

77. “Isn’t it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren’t born yet for missing it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

78. “The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

80. “Anne Shirley. Anne with an “e.”

— L.M. Montgomery

81. “If it’s IN you to climb you must – there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills – they can’t breathe properly in the valleys.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

83. “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

84. “All things great are wound up with all things little.”

— L.M. Montgomery

85. “If you can’t be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.”

— L.M. Montgomery

86. “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

87. “Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden – only ugliness and deformity.”

— L.M. Montgomery

88. “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

89. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

93. “Isn’t it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery