Quotes by L.M. Montgomery

“Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.”

“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going one of those summers which, ...”

“Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on...”

“Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.”

“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”

“I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.”

“Anne walked home very slowly in the moonlight. The evening had changed something for her. Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose. On the surface it would go on just the same; but the deeps...”

“How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived y...”

“There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actuall...”

“Well, I should like to see you go to college, Anne, but if you never do, don't grow discontented about it. We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... college can only help us do it more ea...”

“What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself.”

“Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.”

“Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.”

“I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain--full of balsam and tang--...”

“If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.”

“Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily.'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly.”

“You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.”

“This afternoon I sat at my window and alternately wrote at my new serial and watched a couple of dear, amusing, youngish maple-trees at the foot of the garden. They whispered secrets to each other ...”

“November--with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills. With dear days when the austere woods were beautiful and gracious i...”

“Anne reveled in the world of color about her."Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there a...”