Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Even when I’m alone I have real good company – dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships – and nice, jolly little times with people.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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52. “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

53. “Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else – there never could be anybody else for me but you. I’ve loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”

— L.M. Montgomery

54. “It never rains but it pours.”

— 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’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

58. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

60. “A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing...”

— L.M. Montgomery

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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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. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

71. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

74. “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

75. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

78. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

81. “Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

85. “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

86. “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

87. “There are some things that cannot be expressed in words.”

— L.M. Montgomery

88. “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

89. “I’ve come home in love with loneliness.”

— L.M. Montgomery

90. “After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

92. “Anne Shirley. Anne with an “e.”

— L.M. Montgomery

93. “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

94. “To love is easy and therefore common – but to understand – how rare it is!”

— L.M. Montgomery

95. “That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

98. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

100. “I won’t say another word – not one. I know I talk too much, but I am really trying to overcome it, and although I say far too much, yet if you only knew how much I want to say and don’t, you’d give me some credit for it.”

— L.M. Montgomery