Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

203. “There are some things that cannot be expressed in words.”

— L.M. Montgomery

204. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

206. “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

207. “If a kiss could be seen it would look like a violet.”

— L.M. Montgomery

208. “Oh, aren’t you glad it is spring? The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

214. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

216. “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

217. “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

218. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

223. “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

224. “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

225. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

230. “I won’t say another word – not one. I know I talk too much, but I am really trying to overcome it, and although I say far too much, yet if you only knew how much I want to say and don’t, you’d give me some credit for it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

232. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

234. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

236. “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

237. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

239. “Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”

— L.M. Montgomery

240. “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

241. “You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.”

— L.M. Montgomery

242. “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

243. “There is a book of revelation in everyone’s life.”

— L.M. Montgomery

244. “Cornelia was rightfully Mrs. Marshall Elliott, and had been Mrs. Marshall Elliott for thirteen years, but even yet more people referred to her as Miss.”

— L.M. Montgomery

245. “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

246. “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

247. “It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

249. “You see,” she concluded miserably, “when I can call like that to him across space – I belong to him. He doesn’t love me – he never will – but I belong to him.”

— L.M. Montgomery

250. “The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.”

— L.M. Montgomery