L.M. Montgomery Quotes

Mrs. Marshall Elliott,

Stoutness and slimness seem to be matters of predestination,

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

He was one of your wicked, fascinating men. After he got married he left off being fascinating and just kept on being wicked.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

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 l...

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all abou...

Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—i...

An imagination is a wonderful thing to have … but like every gift we must possess it and not let it possess us.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

…could not have understood what perverted shaped thwarted love can take.

…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…

No hay espacio para la imaginación en la geometría.

What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself.

The day never goes by for men and nations to make asses of themselves and take to the fists.

Never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

CHAPTER XIV. FORBIDDEN FRUIT

I came to the conclusion, Marilla, that I wasn't born for city life and that I was glad of it. It's nice to be eating ice cream at brilliant restaurants at eleven o'clock at night once in a while; but...

Its wonderful to have ambition.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.