Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

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.

That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

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.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

Perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

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.

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.

The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness.

We belong to the race that knows Joseph

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.

It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.

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

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

brains last, beauty doesn't.

Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.