Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “There is a book of Revelation in every one’s life, as there is in the Bible.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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304. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

306. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

310. “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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311. “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

312. “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

313. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

315. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

317. “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

318. “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

319. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

325. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

327. “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

328. “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

329. “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

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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

335. “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

336. “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

337. “Only lonely people keep diaries.”

— L.M. Montgomery

338. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

340. “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

341. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

343. “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

344. “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

345. “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

346. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

349. “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

350. “It’s a pretty good world, after all, isn’t it, Marilla?” concluded Anne happily. “Mrs. Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn’t much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed... perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don’t always come up to your expectations either... they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.”

— L.M. Montgomery