Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

155. “When you’ve learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn’t, you’ve got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie.”

— L.M. Montgomery

156. “There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher’s duty to find and develop it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

158. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

162. “I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them. – Miss Barry.”

— L.M. Montgomery

163. “She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

169. “What a splendid day!′ said Anne, drawing a long breath. ‘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. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

172. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

174. “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

175. “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

176. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

178. “It wouldn’t do to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about. – Anne Shirley.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

180. “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

181. “Jealousy and stupidity really do most of the harm that is done in the world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

182. “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

183. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

185. “I am simply a book drunkard.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

187. “Somehow, things never are so good when they’re thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?”

— L.M. Montgomery

188. “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

189. “Revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

191. “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

192. “Oh, I know I’m a great trial to you, Marilla,” said Anne repentantly. “I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don’t make, although I might.”

— L.M. Montgomery

193. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

198. “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

199. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery