Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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

402. “Well now, I dunno.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

406. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

408. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

410. “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

411. “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

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. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

417. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

419. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

422. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

424. “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

425. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

428. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

432. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

434. “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

435. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

437. “It’s nice to be needed.”

— L.M. Montgomery

438. “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

439. “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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

445. “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

446. “Somehow, things never are so good when they’re thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?”

— L.M. Montgomery

447. “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

448. “It is never quite safe to think we have done with life.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

450. “You’ve all been so sure that life is good that I’ve never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.”

— L.M. Montgomery