L M Montgomery Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about L M Montgomery
L M Montgomery Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational L M Montgomery quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
— L.M. Montgomery
She has no serious ideals at all-her sole aspiration seems to be to have a good time.
— L.M. Montgomery
Oh, isn't it good to be alive--like this? Wouldn't it be dreadful if one had never lived?
— L.M. Montgomery
Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
— L.M. Montgomery
The lines and verses are only the outward garments of the poem and are no more really it than your ruffles and flounces are YOU,
— L.M. Montgomery
Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.
— L.M. Montgomery
Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
— L.M. Montgomery
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
— L.M. Montgomery
Gets up and testifies every night, and cheats the very
— L.M. Montgomery
Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne?
— L.M. Montgomery
Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
— L.M. Montgomery
The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.
— L.M. Montgomery
I think the little things in life often cause more trouble than the big things - Anne Shirley
— L.M. Montgomery
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
— L.M. Montgomery
No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.
— L.M. Montgomery
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?
— L.M. Montgomery
Everybody is a little insane on some points
— L.M. Montgomery
My library isn't very extensive but every book in it is a friend.
— L.M. Montgomery
Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.
— L.M. Montgomery
what perverted shapes thwarted love can take. Little
— L.M. Montgomery
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?
— L.M. Montgomery
For spring is just around the corner and I have forgotten everything but gladness.
— L.M. Montgomery
Bohemian - a respectable sort of tramp.
— L.M. Montgomery
That Gilbert of yours is a darling, Anne,
— L.M. Montgomery
It was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores.
— L.M. Montgomery
Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
— L.M. Montgomery
He world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure. This isn't poetry but it makes me feel the same way as poetry does.
— L.M. Montgomery
Who is Mrs. Ford?" asked Una wonderingly. "Oh,
— L.M. Montgomery
Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too.
— L.M. Montgomery
Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.
— L.M. Montgomery
Once in a thousand years, you know, one cat is allowed to speak. My cats are philosophers-neither of them ever cries over spilt milk.
— L.M. Montgomery
![L M Montgomery Quotes By L.M. Montgomery: But [sorrows] won't get the better of you](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/l-m-montgomery-quotes-by-l-m-montgomery-207795.jpg "L M Montgomery Quotes By L.M. Montgomery: But [sorrows] won't get the better of you")
But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
— L.M. Montgomery
Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.
— L.M. Montgomery
The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
— L.M. Montgomery
Now, Anne, don't look as if you were trying to understand. Seventeen can't understand.
— L.M. Montgomery
I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.
— L.M. Montgomery
And I have such a cold in the head - I can do nothing but sniffle, sigh and sneeze. Isn't that alliterative agony for you?
— L.M. Montgomery
Red hair is my life long sorrow.
— L.M. Montgomery
A little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.
— L.M. Montgomery
Thank goodness air and salvation are still free ... and so is laughter.
— L.M. Montgomery
Marilla is eighty-five," said Anne with a sigh. "Her hair is snow-white. But, strange to say, her eyesight is better than it was when she was sixty.
— L.M. Montgomery
What is to be, will be," said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, "and what isn't to be happens sometimes.
— L.M. Montgomery
Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad, just when you especially want them to be good!
— L.M. Montgomery
Light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty group of daffodils blowing against the
— L.M. Montgomery
Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
— L.M. Montgomery
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
— L.M. Montgomery
Chapter 8 Anne's First Proposal The
— L.M. Montgomery
Why, for mercy's sake, did boys try to dance who didn't know the first thing about dancing; and who had feet as big as boats?
— L.M. Montgomery
I know I chatter on far too much ... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
— L.M. Montgomery
Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.
— L.M. Montgomery
Moonlight and the murmur of pines blended together so that one could hardly tell which was light and which was sound.
— L.M. Montgomery
It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star.
— L.M. Montgomery
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
— L.M. Montgomery
Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important, said Anne severely
— L.M. Montgomery
I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.
— L.M. Montgomery
A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.
— L.M. Montgomery
Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.
— L.M. Montgomery
It never rains but it pours
— L.M. Montgomery
Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.
— L.M. Montgomery
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.
— L.M. Montgomery
If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up. -L.M. Montgomery
— L.M. Montgomery
Multiplication is vexation, division is as bad, the rule of three perplexes me and fractions drive me mad!(the story girl) — L.M. Montgomery
Nothing to hinder me. But that brief dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again.
— L.M. Montgomery
Her eyes astar with dreams
— L.M. Montgomery
You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
— L.M. Montgomery
People say men are interesting. They may be. But I shall never get well enough acquainted with any of them to find out.
— L.M. Montgomery
I'm like Kipling's cat - I walk by my wild lone and wave my wild tail where so it pleases me.
— L.M. Montgomery
I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
— L.M. Montgomery
The folks who lived before me have done so much for me that I want to show my gratitude by doing something for the folks who will live after me.
— L.M. Montgomery
Of course it's better to be good. I know it is but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it
— L.M. Montgomery
Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.
— L.M. Montgomery
Clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a
— L.M. Montgomery
God is in heaven, all's right with the world - Anne Shirley
— L.M. Montgomery
Freedom!' Mrs. Lynde sniffed. 'Freedom! Don't talk like a Yankee, Anne.
— L.M. Montgomery
Time is kinder than we think,' thought Anne. 'It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years ... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.
— L.M. Montgomery
There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.
— L.M. Montgomery
Ellen and Norman Douglas are warming up the old soup." "Is
— L.M. Montgomery
The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.
— L.M. Montgomery
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
— L.M. Montgomery
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.
— L.M. Montgomery
If you believe in a thing it doesn't matter whether it exists or not
— L.M. Montgomery
Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
— L.M. Montgomery
A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.
— L.M. Montgomery
One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs.
— L.M. Montgomery
Oh, aren't you glad it is spring? The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring." The
— L.M. Montgomery
Still Anne said nothing, several times over.
— L.M. Montgomery
I feel sorry now myself," admitted Davy, "but the trouble is I never feel sorry for doing things till after I've did them.
— L.M. Montgomery
Diana has only one birthday in a year. It isn't as if birthdays were common things, Marilla.
— L.M. Montgomery
We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy.
— L.M. Montgomery
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.
— L.M. Montgomery
