Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently.Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so?Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy.
Il guaio delle fantasticherie è che arriva sempre il momento in cui bisogna cancellarle. Ed è un gran brutto momento.
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.
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
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.
Long after Pacifiique's gay whistle had faded into the phantom of music and then into silence far up under the maples of Lover's Lane Anne stood under the willows, tasting the poignant sweetness of li...
I’ve had a splendid time and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.
Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would a...
But of course I'd rather be Anne of Green Gables sewing patchwork than Anne of any other place with nothing to do but play.
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.
The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
I foresee that I shall have my hands full. Well, well, we can't get through this world without our share of trouble.
Dora is too good, said Anne. She’d behave just as well if there wasn’t a soul to tell her what to do. She was born already brought up, so she doesn’t need us; and I think, concluded Anne, hitting on a...
I thought Marilla Cuthburt was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum, she said to herself, but I guess she didn't make much of a mistake after all. If I'd a child like...
It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.
Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.
Let me remind you that the measure of any one’s freedom is what he can do without.