Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

154. “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

155. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

157. “Well, that is another hope gone. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

159. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

161. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

163. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

166. “Death grows friendlier as we grow older.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

169. “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

170. “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

171. “No use in taking a cat’s opinion of a dog.”

— L.M. Montgomery

172. “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

173. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

175. “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

176. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

180. “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

181. “It’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

182. “It is hard to understand why work should be called a curse – until one remembers what bitterness forced or uncongenial labour is. But the work for which we are fitted – which we feel we are sent into the world to do – what a blessing it is and what fullness of joy it holds.”

— L.M. Montgomery

183. “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

184. “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

185. “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

186. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

188. “There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

190. “We mustn’t let next week rob us of this week’s joy.”

— L.M. Montgomery

191. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

193. “I am simply a book drunkard.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

196. “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

197. “Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.”

— L.M. Montgomery

198. “Everybody is a little insane on some points.”

— L.M. Montgomery

199. “Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery