I kind of think she's one of the sort you can do anything with if you only get her to love you.
I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
I don’t like reading about martyrs because they always make me feel petty and ashamed... ashamed to admit I hate to get out of bed on frosty mornings and shrink from a visit to the dentist!
I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU.
I don't know whether it is any use forgiving people or not. Yes, it is, it makes you feel more comfortable yourself.
I don't know what lies around the bed, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it.
I detest that woman [Rachel Lynde] more than anybody I know. She can put a whole sermon, text, comment, and application, into six words, and throw it at you like a brick.
I climbed the hill of firs and looked down over the fields of mist and silver in the moonlight. The shadows of the ferns and sweet wild grasses along the edge of the woods were like a dance of sprites...
I apologized pretty well, didn't I? she said proudly as they went down the lane. I thought since I had to do it I might as well do it thoroughly. You did it thoroughly, all right enough, was Marilla's...
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overc...
Herb Spencer’s going
He jumped into the pond to drown himself once and then changed his mind and swum out again. Wasn't that like a man?
Gilbert would never have dreamed of writing a sonnet to her eyebrows. But then, Gilbert could see a joke. She had once told Roy a funny story—and he had not seen the point of it. She recalled the chum...
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings...
For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and...
Don't give up all your romance Anne, a little of it is a good thing - not too much of course-but keep a little of it - Matthew Cuthbert
Do you know, my arm must be black and blue from the elbow up, for I’ve pinched myself so many times today. Every little while a horrible sickening feeling would come over me and I’d be afraid it was a...
Dear old Jane is a jewel, agreed Anne, but, she added, leaning forward to bestow a tender pat on the plump, dimpled little hand hanging over her pillow, there’s nobody like my own Diana after all. Do...
CHAPTER XII. THE BLUE CHEST OF RACHEL WARD