Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “It’s all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it’s not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

152. “I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I’m sure they would be very beautiful.”

— L.M. Montgomery

153. “To dispair is to turn your back on God.”

— L.M. Montgomery

154. “We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it’s grand and great.”

— L.M. Montgomery

155. “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

157. “We’ve had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We’ve never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can’t be quite the same after this. You’ll have other interests. I’ll just be on the outside.”

— L.M. Montgomery

158. “There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves – so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.”

— L.M. Montgomery

159. “Isn’t it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you’d think, never get much affection?”

— L.M. Montgomery

160. “Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

162. “We are schoolmates, I see,” he said, smiling at Anne’s colors. “That ought to be sufficient introduction. My name is Royal Gardner.”

— L.M. Montgomery

163. “All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves.”

— L.M. Montgomery

164. “To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture.”

— L.M. Montgomery

165. “She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.”

— L.M. Montgomery

166. “How do you like my picture, Phil?” “It seems a very dull one,” said Phil, with a grimace. “Oh, but I’ve left out the transforming thing,” said Anne softly. “There’ll be love there, Phil – faithful, tender love, such as I’ll never find anywhere else in the world – love that’s waiting for me. That makes my picture a masterpiece, doesn’t it, even if the colors are not very brilliant?”

— L.M. Montgomery

167. “I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn’t prevent my thinking there is.”

— L.M. Montgomery

168. “I am simply a book drunkard.”

— L.M. Montgomery

169. “But it’s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn’t it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

170. “Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.”

— L.M. Montgomery

171. “It’s rather hard to decide just when people are grown up...”

— L.M. Montgomery

172. “Oh, of course there’s a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it’s all said and done, there’s many a worse thing than a husband.”

— L.M. Montgomery

173. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

174. “I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.”

— L.M. Montgomery

175. “It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because – because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.”

— L.M. Montgomery

176. “We’ll make friends with the wind and sky and sun, and bring home spring in our hearts.”

— L.M. Montgomery

177. “Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.”

— L.M. Montgomery

178. “Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

179. “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

180. “I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit.”

— L.M. Montgomery

181. “I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged!”

— L.M. Montgomery

182. “It is always safe to dream of spring. For it is sure to come; and if it be not just as we have pictured it, it will be infinitely sweeter.”

— L.M. Montgomery

183. “I don’t know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

184. “Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.”

— L.M. Montgomery

185. “Look at that sea, girls – all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

187. “Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.”

— L.M. Montgomery

188. “She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.”

— L.M. Montgomery

189. “I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.”

— L.M. Montgomery

190. “The year is a book, isn’t it, Marilla? Spring’s pages are written in Mayflowers and violets, summer’s in roses, autumn’s in red maple leaves, and winter in holly and evergreen.”

— L.M. Montgomery

191. “Well, one can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once,” said Anne gaily. “You see, I was little for fourteen years and I’ve only been grown-uppish for scarcely three. I’m sure I shall always feel like a child in the woods.”

— L.M. Montgomery

192. “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

193. “Mi vida es un perfecto cementerio de esperanzas enterradas.”

— L.M. Montgomery

194. “Oh, aren’t you glad it is spring? The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

196. “I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn’t pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful – just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn’t beautiful.”

— L.M. Montgomery

197. “Dear old world. You are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you – Anne Shirley.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

199. “If I wasn’t a human girl I think I’d like to be a bee and live among the flowers.”

— L.M. Montgomery

200. “It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.”

— L.M. Montgomery