Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

252. “I cannot remember the time when I was not writing, or when I did not mean to be a writer... I was an indefatigable scribbler.”

— L.M. Montgomery

253. “The Blue Chest of Rachel Ward” was another “ower-true tale.” Rachel Ward was Eliza Montgomery, a cousin of my father’s, who died in Toronto a few years ago. The blue chest was in the kitchen of Uncle John Campbell’s house at Park Corner from 1849 until her death. We children heard its story many a time and speculated and dreamed over its contents, as we sat on it to study our lessons or eat our bed-time snacks.”

— L.M. Montgomery

254. “The woods are never solitary – they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.”

— L.M. Montgomery

255. “Saying one’s prayers isn’t exactly the same thing as praying...”

— L.M. Montgomery

256. “It’s lovely to be going home and know it’s home. I love green gables already, and I’ve never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I’m so happy.”

— L.M. Montgomery

257. “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

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258. “Yet he was a rather nice-looking young man, with crinkly russet eyes and crinkly red-brown hair, not to mention a chin that gave the world assurance of a chin.”

— L.M. Montgomery

259. “One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.”

— L.M. Montgomery

260. “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

261. “I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

263. “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

264. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

266. “I’m not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn’t it a splendid thing that there are mornings?”

— L.M. Montgomery

267. “When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.”

— L.M. Montgomery

268. “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

269. “I don’t think there is much fear of your dying of grief as long as you can talk, Anne,” said Marilla unsympathetically.”

— L.M. Montgomery

270. “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

271. “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

272. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

274. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

278. “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

279. “I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don’t. Give me SOME credit.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

282. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

284. “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

285. “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

286. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

288. “Flour is so essential to cakes, you know.”

— L.M. Montgomery

289. “There is a book of Revelation in every one’s life, as there is in the Bible.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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290. “It was three o’clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.”

— L.M. Montgomery

291. “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

292. “Josie is a Pye,” said Marilla sharply, “so she can’t help being disagreeable. I suppose people of that kind serve some useful purpose in society, but I must say I don’t know what it is any more than I know the use of thistles.”

— L.M. Montgomery

293. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

295. “The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne’s heart and on her lips.”

— L.M. Montgomery

296. “The sun was setting over Rainbow Valley. The pond was wearing a wonderful tissue of purple and gold and green and crimson. A faint blue haze rested on the eastern hill, over which a great, pale, round moon was just floating up like a silver bubble. They.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

300. “She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them.”

— L.M. Montgomery