L.M. Montgomery Quotes

Emily, whispered Teddy, you're the sweetest girl in the world.The words have been said so often by so many millions of lads to so many millions of lasses, that they ought to be worn to tatters. But wh...

I would like to turn the Kaiser into a good man – a very good man – all at once if I could. That is what I would do. Don't you think, Mrs. Blythe, that would be the very worstest punishment of all?Ble...

Yesterday she had been all her own. Now she was this man's.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

I reckon the gods laugh many a time to hear us, but what matters so long as we remember that we're only men and don't take to fancying that we're gods ourselves, really, knowing good and evil.

When Marilla took Anne up to bed that night she said stiffly: Now, Anne, I noticed last night that you threw your clothes all about the floor when you took them off. That is a very untidy habit, and I...

I told you the Bible was more to be depended on than newspapers!

But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde isn't exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there's no doubt she says a great many very true things.

There were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense bearing tree, And there were forests ancient as the hills Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

There would be other springs, but if she did not succeed in passing the Entrance, Anne felt convinced that she would never recover sufficiently to enjoy them.

There’s no men like that nowadays. This is a degenerate age, Miss Shirley. Homer said the same thing eight hundred years, B.C., smiled Anne.

They tell me her things are fine enough for a princess, said Susan from a shadowy corner where she was cuddling her brown boy. I have been invited up to see them also and I intend to go some evening.

I think there are two kinds of TRUE THINGS-- true things that ARE, and true things that ARE NOT, but MIGHT be.

But there is strength in numbers and at noon hour Emily found herself standing alone on the playground facing a crowd of unfriendly faces. Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the...

But there is a destiny which shapes the ends of young misses who are born with the itch for writing tingling in their baby fingertips, and in the fullness of time this destiny gave to Emily the desire...

We both belong to the race that knows Joseph, as Cornelia Bryant would say. The race that knows Joseph? puzzled Anne. Yes. Cornelia divides all the folks in the world into two kinds — the race that kn...

But now she loved winter. Winter was beautiful up back - almost intolerably beautiful. Days of clear brilliance. Evenings that were like cups of glamour - the purest vintage of winter's wine. Nights w...

Was not -- should not -- a career be something splendid, wonderful, spectacular at the very least, something varied and exciting? Could my long, uphill struggle, through many quiet, uneventful years,...

But oughtn't we to be prepared for the best too? It's just as likely to happen as the worst.

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.