Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.”

— L.M. Montgomery

302. “There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.”

— L.M. Montgomery

303. “It’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

304. “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

305. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

307. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

309. “Those who knew Anne best felt, without realizing that they felt it, that her greatest attraction was the aura of possibility surrounding her... the power of future development that was in her. She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen. As.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

311. “It is hard to understand why work should be called a curse – until one remembers what bitterness forced or uncongenial labour is. But the work for which we are fitted – which we feel we are sent into the world to do – what a blessing it is and what fullness of joy it holds.”

— L.M. Montgomery

312. “People who don’t like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

314. “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

315. “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

316. “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

317. “That is one consolation when you are poor – there are so many more things you can imagine about.”

— L.M. Montgomery

318. “Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.”

— L.M. Montgomery

319. “Oh, Gilbert, don’t let’s ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.”

— L.M. Montgomery

320. “You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.”

— L.M. Montgomery

321. “I know you’re a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven’s sake pretend you’re not for five minutes.”

— L.M. Montgomery

322. “It’s good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.”

— L.M. Montgomery

323. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

326. “It only seems as if you are doing something when you’re worrying.”

— L.M. Montgomery

327. “Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

328. “Changes ain’t totally pleasant but they’re excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy.”

— L.M. Montgomery

329. “There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won’t talk back – unless it is a woman who won’t.”

— L.M. Montgomery

330. “I suppose all this sounds very crazy – all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken – only felt and endured.”

— L.M. Montgomery

331. “Gilbert would never have dreamed of writing a sonnet to her eyebrows. But then, Gilbert could see a joke. She had once told Roy a funny story – and he had not seen the point of it. She recalled the chummy laugh she and Gilbert had had together over it, and wondered uneasily if life with a man who had no sense of humor might not be somewhat uninteresting in the long run. But who could expect a melancholy, inscrutable hero to see the humorous side of things? It would be flatly unreasonable.”

— L.M. Montgomery

332. “It’s not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn’t; It’s only vanity when you get puffed up about them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

333. “Green Gables has been translated into Swedish and Dutch. My copy of the Swedish edition always gives me the inestimable boon of a laugh. The cover design is a full length figure of Anne, wearing a sunbonnet, carrying the famous carpet-bag, and with hair that is literally of an intense scarlet!”

— L.M. Montgomery

334. “Experience teaches sense. You can’t learn it in a college course.”

— L.M. Montgomery

335. “If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I’d look up into the sky – up – up – up – into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I’d just FEEL a prayer.”

— L.M. Montgomery

336. “It almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.”

— L.M. Montgomery

337. “Don’t give up all your romance Anne, a little of it is a good thing – not too much of course-but keep a little of it – Matthew Cuthbert.”

— L.M. Montgomery

338. “I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them. – Miss Barry.”

— L.M. Montgomery

339. “Gods in his heaven, all’s right with the world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

340. “Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams. And when it tips on a cloud some of them spill out and fall into your sleep.”

— L.M. Montgomery

341. “Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren’t my thoughts. I couldn’t think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.”

— L.M. Montgomery

342. “Anne, on her way to Orchard Slope, met Diana, bound for Green Gables, just where the mossy old log bridge spanned the brook below the Haunted Wood, and they sat down by the margin of the Dryad’s Bubble, where tiny ferns were unrolling like curly-headed green pixy folk wakening up from a nap.”

— L.M. Montgomery

343. “Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.”

— L.M. Montgomery

344. “When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.”

— L.M. Montgomery

345. “Don’t you know ANY good husbands, Miss Bryant?” “Oh, yes, lots of them – over yonder,” said Miss Cornelia, waving her hand through the open window towards the little graveyard of the church across the harbor.”

— L.M. Montgomery

346. “I’m always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.”

— L.M. Montgomery

347. “Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won’t come till I’ve seen everything in it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

348. “Is there laughter in your face yet, Rilla? I hope so. The world will need laughter and courage more than ever in the years that will come next. I don’t want to preach – this isn’t any time for it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

349. “They had a sort of talent for happiness.”

— L.M. Montgomery

350. “Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn’t seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.”

— L.M. Montgomery