Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

353. “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

354. “Just think of all the great and noble souls who have lived and worked in the world. Isn’t it worthwhile to come after them and inherit what they won and taught? And think of all the great people in the world today! Isn’t it worthwhile to think we can share their inspiration? And the, all the great souls that will come in the future? Isn’t it worthwhile to work a little and prepare the way for them-make just one step in their path easier? – Anne Shirley.”

— L.M. Montgomery

355. “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

356. “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

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. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

362. “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

363. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

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

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367. “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

368. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

372. “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

373. “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

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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

378. “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

379. “We mustn’t let next week rob us of this week’s joy.”

— L.M. Montgomery

380. “Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more ’scope for the imagination without them. – Anne Shirley.”

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381. “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.”

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382. “The trouble with you, Anne, is that you’re thinking too much about yourself. You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable to her,” said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice. Anne instantly realized this.”

— L.M. Montgomery

383. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

385. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

387. “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

388. “It’s nice to be needed.”

— L.M. Montgomery

389. “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

390. “Isn’t it splendid there are so many things to like in this world?”

— L.M. Montgomery

391. “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

392. “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

393. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

395. “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

396. “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.”

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

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398. “Well, anyway, when I am grown up,” said Anne decidedly, “I’m always going to talk to little girls as if they were too, and I’ll never laugh when they use big words. I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts one’s feelings.”

— L.M. Montgomery

399. “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

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