Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.”

— L.M. Montgomery

202. “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

203. “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

204. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

209. “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

210. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

212. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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214. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

219. “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

220. “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

221. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

226. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

228. “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

229. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

234. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

236. “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

237. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

239. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

243. “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

244. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

246. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery