Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Desire grows by what it feeds on.”

— L.M. Montgomery

102. “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

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103. “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

104. “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

105. “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

106. “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

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107. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

109. “Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

112. “For spring is just around the corner and I have forgotten everything but gladness.”

— L.M. Montgomery

113. “I’m sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.”

— L.M. Montgomery

114. “And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

116. “Night is beautiful when you are happy – comforting when you are in grief – terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.”

— L.M. Montgomery

117. “There’s something very solemn about the idea of a new year, isn’t there? Just think of three hundred and sixty-five whole days with not a thing happened in them yet.”

— L.M. Montgomery

118. “A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

120. “Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.”

— L.M. Montgomery

121. “I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can’t get at you.”

— L.M. Montgomery

122. “The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

123. “A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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124. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

126. “Home and I are such good friends.”

— L.M. Montgomery

127. “If a kiss could be seen it would look like a violet.”

— L.M. Montgomery

128. “I’m not a bit changed – not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real me – back here – is just the same.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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129. “You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.”

— L.M. Montgomery

130. “Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.”

— L.M. Montgomery

131. “That’s one of the things we learn as we grow older – how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.”

— L.M. Montgomery

132. “My pen shall heal, not hurt.”

— L.M. Montgomery

133. “I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”

— L.M. Montgomery

134. “We’ll never say good-bye to each other. We’ll just smile and go.”

— L.M. Montgomery

135. “Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each one out from its fellows.”

— L.M. Montgomery

136. “But it ain’t our feelings we have to steer by through life – no, no, we’d make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There’s only the one safe compass and we’ve got to set our course by that – what it’s right to do.”

— L.M. Montgomery

137. “Red hair is my life long sorrow.”

— L.M. Montgomery

138. “But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.”

— L.M. Montgomery

139. “Well, that is another hope gone. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.”

— L.M. Montgomery

140. “I am grateful that my childhood was spent in a spot where there were many trees, trees of personality, planted and tended by hands long dead, bound up with everything of joy or sorrow that visited our lives. When I have “lived with” a tree for many years it seems to me like a beloved human companion.”

— L.M. Montgomery

141. “Then the immortal heart of the woods will beat against ours and its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us its own forever, so that no matter where we go or how widely we wander we shall yet be drawn back to the forest to find our most enduring kinship.”

— L.M. Montgomery

142. “I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.”

— L.M. Montgomery

143. “She had a way of embroidering life with stars.”

— L.M. Montgomery

144. “Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.”

— L.M. Montgomery

145. “Shirking responsibilities is the curse of our modern life-the secret of all the unrest and discontent that is seething in the world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

146. “I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.”

— L.M. Montgomery

147. “You were never poor as long as you had something to love.”

— L.M. Montgomery

148. “She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.”

— L.M. Montgomery

149. “I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”

— L.M. Montgomery

150. “Anne: “But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice”. Marilla: “I don’t know as that’s much benefit when you’re always making new ones”.”

— L.M. Montgomery