Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “For spring is just around the corner and I have forgotten everything but gladness.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

106. “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

107. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

110. “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

111. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

114. “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

115. “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

116. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

123. “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

124. “My pen shall heal, not hurt.”

— L.M. Montgomery

125. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

129. “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

130. “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

131. “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

132. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

134. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

136. “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

137. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

141. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

143. “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

144. “The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.”

— L.M. Montgomery

145. “When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.”

— L.M. Montgomery

146. “On a day like this there’s no such word as fail in my bright lexicon.”

— L.M. Montgomery

147. “Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn’t be afraid of it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

148. “She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.”

— L.M. Montgomery

149. “Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?”

— L.M. Montgomery

150. “No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.”

— L.M. Montgomery