Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,′ she said with a sigh.”

— L.M. Montgomery

402. “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

403. “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

404. “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

405. “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

406. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

409. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

411. “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

412. “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

413. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

416. “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

417. “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

418. “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

419. “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

420. “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

421. “Influence other people for good.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

423. “Well now, I dunno.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

425. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

428. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

430. “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

431. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

434. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

439. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

441. “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

442. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

444. “Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.”

— L.M. Montgomery

445. “People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,′ said Anne.”

— L.M. Montgomery

446. “You’ll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.”

— L.M. Montgomery

447. “It’s snowing some today and Marilla says the old woman in the sky is shaking her feather beds. Is the old woman in the sky God’s wife, Anne? I want to know. “Mrs.”

— 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 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

450. “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