Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

202. “We don’t know where we’re going, but isn’t is fun to go?”

— L.M. Montgomery

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203. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

208. “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

209. “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

210. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

214. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

217. “Oh, I like things to have handles even if they are only geraniums. It makes them seem more like people. How do you know but that it hurts a geranium’s feelings just to be called a geranium and nothing else? You wouldn’t like to be called nothing but a woman all the time.”

— L.M. Montgomery

218. “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

219. “But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”

— L.M. Montgomery

220. “Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

222. “The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.”

— L.M. Montgomery

223. “All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

225. “I wouldn’t want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I’d like it if he could be wicked and wouldn’t.”

— L.M. Montgomery

226. “Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?”

— L.M. Montgomery

227. “It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.”

— L.M. Montgomery

228. “I’m like Kipling’s cat – I walk by my wild lone and wave my wild tail where so it pleases me.”

— L.M. Montgomery

229. “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.”

— L.M. Montgomery

230. “Anne has as many shades as a rainbow and every shade is the prettiest while it lasts.”

— L.M. Montgomery

231. “Don’t you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”

— L.M. Montgomery

232. “Doesn’t matter what a person’s name is as long as he behaves himself.”

— L.M. Montgomery

233. “Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive – it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

234. “You make me believe in fairies, whether I will or no,” he told her, “and that means youth. As long as you believe in fairies you can’t grow old.”

— L.M. Montgomery

235. “Anne always liked to get up early and catch that mystical half-hour before sunrise when the world belongs to the fairies and the old gods.”

— L.M. Montgomery

236. “Tears don’t hurt like the ache does.”

— L.M. Montgomery

237. “Wouldn’t it be nice if roses could talk? I’m sure they could tell us such lovely things.”

— L.M. Montgomery

238. “Plum puffs can’t minister to a mind diseased or a world that’s crumbling to pieces.”

— L.M. Montgomery

239. “It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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240. “One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs.”

— L.M. Montgomery

241. “April came tiptoeing in beautifully that year with sunshine and soft winds for a few days; and then a driving northeast snowstorm dropped a white blanket over the world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

242. “Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.”

— L.M. Montgomery

243. “I couldn’t live where there were no trees – something vital in me would starve.”

— L.M. Montgomery

244. “There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought.”

— L.M. Montgomery

245. “She had died in her sleep, painlessly and calmly, and on her face was a smile- as if, after all, death had come as a kindly friend to lead her over the threshold, instead of the grisly phantom she had dreaded... Anne, looking down through a mist of tears, at her old playfellow, thought she saw the face of God had meant Ruby to have, and remembered it so always.”

— L.M. Montgomery

246. “Then they walked home together in the dusk, crowned king and queen in the bridal realm of love, along winding paths fringed with the sweetest flowers that ever bloomed, and over haunted meadows where winds of hope and memory blew.”

— L.M. Montgomery

247. “A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot revel in self-pity. She cannot comfortably damn any one who differs from her.”

— L.M. Montgomery

248. “Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?”

— L.M. Montgomery

249. “In geometry Anne met her Waterloo. “It’s perfectly awful stuff, Marilla,” she groaned. “I’m sure I’ll never be able to make heads or tail of it. There is not scope for imagination in it at all.”

— L.M. Montgomery

250. “All the Beyond was hers with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years – each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.”

— L.M. Montgomery