Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Moonlight and the murmur of pines blended together so that one could hardly tell which was light and which was sound.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

403. “It’s nice to be needed.”

— L.M. Montgomery

404. “I don’t want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want you... We’ll just be happy, waiting and working for each other – and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.”

— L.M. Montgomery

405. “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

406. “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

407. “Afar in the southwest was the great shimmering, pearl-like sparkle of an evening star in a sky that was pale golden and ethereal rose over gleaming white spaces and dark glens of spruce.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

409. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

412. “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

413. “Rilla was not fond of Mary Vance. She had never forgotten the humiliating day when Mary had chased her through the village with a dried codfish.”

— L.M. Montgomery

414. “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

415. “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

416. “She was as intense in her hatreds as in her loves.”

— L.M. Montgomery

417. “A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.”

— L.M. Montgomery

418. “Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.”

— L.M. Montgomery

419. “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

420. “And as for risk, there’s risk in pretty near everything a body does in this world. – Marilla Cuthbert.”

— L.M. Montgomery

421. “I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet,” scoffed Marilla. “You’ll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste time that should be put to your lessons. Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.”

— L.M. Montgomery

422. “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

423. “The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness.”

— L.M. Montgomery

424. “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

425. “There was another occupant of the living-room, curled up on a couch, who must not be overlooked, since he was a creature of marked individuality, and, moreover, had the distinction of being the only living thing whom Susan really hated.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

427. “She has no serious ideals at all-her sole aspiration seems to be to have a good time.”

— L.M. Montgomery

428. “When we have to do a thing... we can do it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

429. “All your life Davy, you’ll find yourself doing things you don’t want to do – Anne Shirley.”

— L.M. Montgomery

430. “That water looks as if it was smiling at me.”

— L.M. Montgomery

431. “There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don’t think about things and then – we remember – and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been.”

— L.M. Montgomery

432. “Influence other people for good.”

— L.M. Montgomery

433. “Rilla meant to keep Walter’s letter as a a sacred treasure.”

— L.M. Montgomery

434. “There had been no snow up to this time, but as Diana crossed the old log bridge on her homeward way the white flakes were beginning to flutter down over the fields and woods, russet and gray in their dreamless sleep. Soon the far-away slopes and hills were dim and wraith-like through their gauzy scarfing, as if pale autumn had flung a misty bridal veil over her hair and was waiting for her wintry bridegroom.”

— L.M. Montgomery

435. “Don’t be fretting... about me marrying. Marrying’s a trouble and not marrying’s a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.”

— L.M. Montgomery

436. “Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It’s only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.”

— L.M. Montgomery

437. “Well now, I dunno.”

— L.M. Montgomery

438. “Well, I won’t. Ludovic Speed and Theodora Dix live in Middle Grafton and Mrs. Rachel says he has been courting her for a hundred years. Won’t they soon be too old to get married, Anne? I hope Gilbert won’t court YOU that long. When are you going to be married, Anne? Mrs. Lynde says it’s a sure thing.” “Mrs. Lynde is a – ” began Anne hotly; then stopped. “Awful old gossip,” completed Davy calmly. “That’s what every one calls her. But is it a sure thing, Anne? I want to know.” “You’re.”

— L.M. Montgomery

439. “I think the nicest thing about days is their unexpectedness. It’s jolly to wake up like this on a golden-fine morning and day-dream for ten minutes before I get up, imagining heaps of splendid things that might happen.”

— L.M. Montgomery

440. “Why should one hate you when you were so small? Could you be worth hating?”

— L.M. Montgomery

441. “Oh, of course there’s a resk in marrying anybody,” conceded Charlotta the Fourth, “but, when all’s said and done, Miss Shirley, ma’am, there’s many a worse thing than a husband.”

— L.M. Montgomery

442. “It’s a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.”

— L.M. Montgomery

443. “It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

444. “The faint laughter of winds was always about them and the colors of Mistawis, imperial and spiritual, under the changing clouds, were something that cannot be expressed in mere words. Shadows, too. Clustering in the pines until a wind shook them out and pursued them over Mistawis. They lay all day along the shores, threaded by ferns and wild blossoms. They stole around the headlands in the glow of the sunset, until twilight wove them all into one great web of dusk.”

— L.M. Montgomery

445. “Jane says she will devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband won’t pay you anything, and growls if you ask for a share in the egg and butter money.”

— L.M. Montgomery

446. “You’d find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair.”

— L.M. Montgomery

447. “Folks say I’m good,” he remarked whimsically upon one occasion, “but I sometimes wish the Lord had made me only half as good and put the rest of it into looks. But there, I reckon He knew what He was about, as a good Captain should. Some of us have to be homely, or the purty ones – like Mistress Blythe here – wouldn’t show up so well.”

— L.M. Montgomery

448. “If I had my way I’d shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne,” said Gilbert in the tone that meant “danger ahead.” “Then.”

— L.M. Montgomery

449. “I wonder if perfume could set a man drunk.”

— L.M. Montgomery

450. “I wonder,” said Miss Oliver, “if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the ‘many inventions’ neither lessen nor increase it.” “After.”

— L.M. Montgomery