I don’t like places or people either that haven’t any faults. I think a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.
I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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 can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
I believe in a girl being fitted to earn her own living whether she ever has to or not. You'll
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...
How are you going to find out about things if you don't ask questions?
Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.
Her advice is much like pepper, I think . . . excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses.
He jumped into the pond to drown himself once and then changed his mind and swum out again. Wasn't that like a man?
God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
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 getor take in this world; and although ambitions are well worthhaving, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues ofwork and self-denial, anxiety and dis...
Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain, but I should not have minded finding that out for myself, if it had been so ordained. I have no doubt we will all be beautiful when we are angels, but what good...
Dreams don’t often come true, do they? Wouldn’t it be nice if they did?
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...
Did she think ginger cookies a substitute for impassioned longings and mad, wild, glamorous adventures?