L.M. Montgomery Quotes

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

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...

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

Saw that button and the peace of the Ladies' Aid was upset for weeks. Carl had the clear, bright, dark-blue eyes, fearless and direct, of his dead mother, and her brown hair with its glints of gold. H...

He believed he was dead and used to rage at his wife because she wouldn't bury him. I'd a-done it.

I wish I was back in Toronto, I said sulkily. The mince pie was to blame for THAT wish. I wish you were, I'm sure, said Felicity, riddling the fire noisily. Any one who lives with you, Felicity King,...

You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.

Moonlight and the murmur of pines blended together so that one could hardly tell which was light and which was sound.

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously…

That Gilbert of yours is a darling, Anne,

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

Thank you—but—but—I think I'd rather go right back and take the letter to father, faltered Una. You see, he'll be glad that much SOONER, Miss West. I see, said Rosemary. She went to the house, wrote a...

And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy, assured Anne.

I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones.

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

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 you would be very unwise, rejoined Anne hastily. I'm sure...

Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.