Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I don’t really care what people think about me if they don’t let me see it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

107. “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

108. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

111. “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

112. “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

113. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

116. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

119. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

124. “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

125. “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

126. “My pen shall heal, not hurt.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

130. “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

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

135. “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

136. “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

137. “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

138. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

142. “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

143. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

146. “A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

148. “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

149. “There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.”

— L.M. Montgomery

150. “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