Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

305. “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

306. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

309. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

311. “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

312. “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

313. “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

314. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

319. “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

320. “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

321. “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

322. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

324. “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

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

— 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. “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

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. “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 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

331. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

334. “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

335. “She had died in her sleep, painlessly and calmly, and on her face was a smile- as if, after all, death had come as a kindly friend to lead her over the threshold, instead of the grisly phantom she had dreaded... Anne, looking down through a mist of tears, at her old playfellow, thought she saw the face of God had meant Ruby to have, and remembered it so always.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

337. “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

338. “A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

342. “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

343. “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

344. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

346. “Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn’t do to drag them into everything, does it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

347. “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

348. “Only lonely people keep diaries.”

— L.M. Montgomery

349. “Anne looked up. Tall and handsome and distinguished-looking – dark, melancholy, inscrutable eyes – melting, musical, sympathetic voice – yes, the very hero of her dreams stood before her in the flesh. He could not have more closely resembled her ideal if he.”

— L.M. Montgomery

350. “I don’t seem to be like other girls, Judy. They all want to go to college and have a career. I don’t... I just want to stay at Silver Bush and help you and mother. There’s work for me here, Judy... you know there is. Mother isn’t strong. As for being educated... I shall be well educated... love educates, Judy.”

— L.M. Montgomery