L.M. Montgomery Quotes

It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted.

It was very humiliating to be worsted by a girl—a country girl at that, who had passed most of her life on a farm! No doubt she was strong-minded and wanted to vote. I was quite prepared to believe an...

It does people good to have to do things they don't like...in moderation.

It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?

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

Now, don't fly off the handle. Martha said the butcher at the Glen had no meat this week and she had to have something and the hens were all laying and too poor. If

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in tryi...

Mrs. Davis did not say anything half so amiable as good afternoon, but she took her departure.

Making a--new--excuse me. Did you say language?Yes.What's the matter with English? Isn't it good enough for you, you incomprehensible little being?

Lucy Maud Montgomery THE COMPLETE ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence.

John Meredith paced up and down the parlour for a few minutes; then he went back to his study and sat down. But he did not return to his German theology.

I don't know what lies around the bed, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them, exclaimed Anne.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.