Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.”

— L.M. Montgomery

252. “I’ve always loved the night and I’ll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.”

— L.M. Montgomery

253. “Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?”

— L.M. Montgomery

254. “Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister – a happiness we’ve earned.”

— L.M. Montgomery

255. “People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.”

— L.M. Montgomery

256. “Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be – to me in all events – a terrible thing without books.”

— L.M. Montgomery

257. “As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature – the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.”

— L.M. Montgomery

258. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

260. “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

261. “Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

262. “They belonged to each other; and, no matter what life might hold for them, it could never alter that. Their happiness was in each other’s keeping and both were unafraid.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

264. “There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there?”

— L.M. Montgomery

265. “It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty. Between it and herself hung only a thin curtain; she could never draw the curtain aside – but sometimes, just for a moment, a wind fluttered it and then it was as if she caught a glimpse of the enchanting realm beyond – only a glimpse – and heard a note of unearthly music.”

— L.M. Montgomery

266. “She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.”

— L.M. Montgomery

267. “Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.”

— L.M. Montgomery

268. “Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn’t do to drag them into everything, does it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

269. “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

270. “At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.”

— L.M. Montgomery

271. “Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

273. “Many people have told me that they regretted Matthew’s death in Green Gables. I regret it myself. If I had the book to write over again I would spare Matthew for several years. But when I wrote it I thought he must die, that there might be a necessity for self-sacrifice on Anne’s part, so poor Matthew joined the long procession of ghosts that haunt my literary past.”

— L.M. Montgomery

274. “Even when I’m alone, I have real good company – dreams and imaginations and pretendings.”

— L.M. Montgomery

275. “A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said.”

— L.M. Montgomery

276. “Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

277. “But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”

— L.M. Montgomery

278. “For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

280. “I’ve just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”

— L.M. Montgomery

281. “I read a story tonight. It ended unhappily. I was wretched until I had invented a happy ending for it. I shall always end my stories happily. I don’t care whether it’s “true to life” or not. It’s true to life as it should be and that’s a better truth than the other.”

— L.M. Montgomery

282. “Well, I don’t want to be any one but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life.”

— L.M. Montgomery

283. “Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.”

— L.M. Montgomery

284. “Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.”

— L.M. Montgomery

285. “Don’t be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.”

— L.M. Montgomery

286. “A child of about eleven, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey. She wore a faded brown sailor hat and beneath the hat, extending down her back, were two braids of very thick, decidedly red hair. Her face was small, white and thin, also much freckled; her mouth was large and so were her eyes, which looked green in some lights and moods and gray in others.”

— L.M. Montgomery

287. “The night was so very still that one should have been able to hear the whisper of roses in blossom – the laughter of daisies – the piping of grasses – many sweet sounds, all tangled up together. The beauty of moonlight on familiar fields irradiated the world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

288. “I know they’ll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn’t be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure.”

— L.M. Montgomery

289. “And he wrote, “When the moon rises tonight think of me and I’ll think of you.”

— L.M. Montgomery

290. “Don’t give up all your romance, Anne,” he whispered shyly, “a little bit is a good thing – not too much, of course, but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

291. “Outside in the garden, which was full of mellow sunset light streaming through the dark old firs to the west of it, stood Anne and Diana, gazing bashfully at each other over a clump of gorgeous tiger lilies.”

— L.M. Montgomery

292. “I don’t believe I’d really want to be a sensible person, because they are so unromantic.”

— L.M. Montgomery

293. “An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.”

— L.M. Montgomery

294. “I’m afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.”

— L.M. Montgomery

295. “There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it’s so hard to keep from loving things, isn’t it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

296. “Ruby Gillis says when she grows up she’s going to have ever so many beaus on the string and have them all crazy about her; but I think that would be too exciting. I’d rather just have one in his right mind.”

— L.M. Montgomery

297. “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

298. “I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination.”

— L.M. Montgomery

299. “It doesn’t matter if a man does use bad grammar so long as he is a good provider and doesn’t go poking round the pantry to see how much sugar you’ve used in a week.”

— L.M. Montgomery

300. “There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world.”

— L.M. Montgomery