Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “On a day like this there’s no such word as fail in my bright lexicon.”

— L.M. Montgomery

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

156. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

158. “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

159. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

161. “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

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

168. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

170. “I am simply a book drunkard.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

179. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

181. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

183. “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

184. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

187. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

190. “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

191. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

195. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

197. “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

198. “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

199. “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

200. “Everything that’s worth having is some trouble – Anne Shirley.”

— L.M. Montgomery