Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “But there is a destiny which shapes the ends of young misses who are born with the itch for writing tingling in their baby fingertips, and in the fullness of time this destiny gave to Emily the desire of her heart – gave.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

403. “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

404. “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

405. “It’s nice to be needed.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

407. “Everybody is a little insane on some points.”

— L.M. Montgomery

408. “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

409. “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

410. “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

411. “Influence other people for good.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— 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. “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

415. “Well now, I dunno.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

420. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

422. “How terrible it would be to be doing something you didn’t like every day.”

— L.M. Montgomery

423. “Listen to the bells ringing in Rainbow Valley! I never heard them so clearly. They’re ringing for peace – and new happiness – and all the dear, sweet, sane, homey things that we can have again now, Miss Oliver.”

— L.M. Montgomery

424. “How horrible it is that people have to grow up!”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

426. “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

427. “Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon.”

— L.M. Montgomery

428. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

430. “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

431. “War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing – too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.”

— L.M. Montgomery

432. “It’s as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either...”

— L.M. Montgomery

433. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

435. “Oh, I know I’m a great trial to you, Marilla,” said Anne repentantly. “I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don’t make, although I might.”

— L.M. Montgomery

436. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

438. “Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.”

— L.M. Montgomery

439. “Oh, what I know about myself isn’t really worth telling, said Anne eagerly. If you’ll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you’ll think it ever so much more interesting.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

442. “I kind of think she’s one of the sort you can do anything with if you only get her to love you.”

— L.M. Montgomery

443. “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

444. “I know I haven’t much sense or sobriety, but I’ve got what is ever so much better – the knack of making people like me.”

— L.M. Montgomery

445. “How beautiful it was, lying embowered in the twilight of the old trees; the tips of the loftiest spruces came out in purple silhouettes against the north-weatersn sky of rose and amber; down behind it the Blair Water dreamed in silver; the Wind Woman had folded her misty bat-wings in a valley of sunset and stillness that lay over the world like a blessing. Emily felt sure that everything would be all right.”

— L.M. Montgomery

446. “Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

449. “Revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.”

— 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