Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “Flour is so essential to cakes, you know.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

304. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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308. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

310. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

312. “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

313. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

317. “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

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318. “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

319. “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

320. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

322. “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

323. “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

324. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

328. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

330. “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

331. “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

332. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

336. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

338. “And there was always the bend in the road!”

— L.M. Montgomery

339. “There is nothing but meetings and partings in this 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. “Only lonely people keep diaries.”

— L.M. Montgomery

342. “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

343. “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

344. “The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.”

— L.M. Montgomery

345. “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

346. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

348. “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

349. “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

350. “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