Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.”

— L.M. Montgomery

352. “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

353. “There isn’t any devil in a good dog. That’s why they’re more lovable than cats, I reckon. But I’m darned if they’re as interesting.”

— L.M. Montgomery

354. “No... it’s lovely here when the dark is your friend, isn’t it? When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy... and it glowers in at you resentfully.”

— L.M. Montgomery

355. “A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

358. “It’s fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it’s not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There’s so much to learn and do and think that there isn’t time for big words.”

— L.M. Montgomery

359. “There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

360. “That’s one splendid thing about such affairs – it’s so lovely to look back to them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

361. “Only lonely people keep diaries.”

— L.M. Montgomery

362. “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

363. “I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove ‘to fly away and be at rest,’ but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm.”

— L.M. Montgomery

364. “I am afraid to speak or move for the fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence.”

— L.M. Montgomery

365. “Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.”

— L.M. Montgomery

366. “We have The Idylls of the King in English class this term. I like some things in them, but I detest Tennyson’s Arthur. If I had been Guinevere I’d have boxed his ears – but I wouldn’t have been unfaithful to him for Lancelot, who was just as odious in a different way. As for Geraint, if I had been Enid I’d have bitten him. These ‘patient Griseldas’ deserve all they get.”

— L.M. Montgomery

367. “I believe in a girl being fitted to earn her own living whether she ever has to or not. You’ll.”

— L.M. Montgomery

368. “Anne sewed and planned little winter wardrobes... “Nan must have a red dress, since she is so set on it”... and sometimes thought of Hannah, weaving her little coat every year for the small Samuel. Mothers were the same all through the centuries... a great sisterhood of love and service... the remembered and the unremembered alike.”

— L.M. Montgomery

369. “Love! What a searing, torturing, intolerably sweet thing it was – this possession of body, soul and mind! With something at its core as fine and remote and purely spiritual as the tiny blue spark in the heart of the unbreakable diamond.”

— L.M. Montgomery

370. “Oh, Aunt Elizabeth,” said Emily breathlessly, “when you hold the candle down like that it makes your face look just like a corpse! Oh, it’s so interesting.”

— L.M. Montgomery

371. “How those girls enjoyed putting their nest in order! As Phil said, it was almost as good as getting married. You had the fun of homemaking without the bother of a husband.”

— L.M. Montgomery

372. “Ye’ve only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.”

— L.M. Montgomery

373. “An hour ago on the sand-shore he has been looking at her as if she were the only being of any importance in the world. And now she was a nobody.”

— L.M. Montgomery

374. “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

375. “Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn’t do to drag them into everything, does it? Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever.”

— L.M. Montgomery

376. “And the coming of Anne – the vivid, imaginative, impetuous child with her heart of love, and her world of fancy, bringing with her color and warmth and radiance, until the wilderness of existence had blossomed like the rose.”

— L.M. Montgomery

377. “Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”

— L.M. Montgomery

378. “It’s the worst kind of cruelty – the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

379. “Moonlight and the murmur of pines blended together so that one could hardly tell which was light and which was sound.”

— L.M. Montgomery

380. “It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn’t it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

381. “It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that ’this, too, will pass away.”

— L.M. Montgomery

382. “What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.”

— L.M. Montgomery

383. “But the way girls roam over the earth now is something terrible. It always makes me think of Satan in the Book of Job, going to and fro and walking up and down.”

— L.M. Montgomery

384. “It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead – a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.”

— L.M. Montgomery

385. “Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

386. “If it had not rained on a certain May morning Valancy Stirling’s whole life would have been entirely different. She would have gone, with the rest of her clan, to Aunt Wellington’s engagement picnic and Dr. Trent would have gone to Montreal. But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

387. “Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert’s head and cracked it – slate not head – clear across.”

— L.M. Montgomery

388. “Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!”

— L.M. Montgomery

389. “Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence would probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.”

— L.M. Montgomery

390. “No. I don’t think I’ve ever been really lonely in my life,” answered Anne. “Even when I’m alone I have real good company – dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I LIKE to be alone now and then, just to think over things and TASTE them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

391. “People who have to look after twins can’t be expected to say their prayers. Now, do you honestly think they can?”

— L.M. Montgomery

392. “Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,′ she said with a sigh.”

— L.M. Montgomery

393. “Mrs Lynde says, “Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.” But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”

— L.M. Montgomery

394. “The trouble is you and Mrs Lynde don’t understand each other. That is always what is wrong when people don’t like each other. – Anne Shirley.”

— L.M. Montgomery

395. “The Piper is coming nearer,” he said, “he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes – he pipes – and we must follow – Jem and Carl and Jerry and I – round and round the world. Listen – listen – can’t you hear his wild music?”

— L.M. Montgomery

396. “People told her she hadn’t changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn’t.”

— L.M. Montgomery

397. “We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.”

— L.M. Montgomery

398. “I don’t like green Christmases. They’re not green – they’re just nasty faded browns and grays.”

— L.M. Montgomery

399. “There was a blue, waiting sea at the end and an old grey house fronting the sunset, so close to the purring waves that in storms their spray dashed over its very doorstep... a wise old house that knew many things, as Pat always felt. Mother’s old home and therefore to be loved, whether one could love the people in it or not.”

— L.M. Montgomery

400. “It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,′ said Anne, shuddering.”

— L.M. Montgomery