Top 100 L.M. Montgomery Quotes

#1. And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.

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#2. housewives of the Glen felt it, and

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#3. I wonder," said Miss Oliver, "if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it." "After

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#4. I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

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#5. It almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.

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#6. Never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

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#7. Oh, don't you see? 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 very comforting thought.

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#8. The kind of juvenile story I like best to write
and read, too, for the matter of that
is a good, jolly one, "art for art's sake," or rather "fun for fun's sake," with no insidious moral hidden away in it like a pill in a spoonful of jam!

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#9. Chapter 15 A Tempest in the School Teapot

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#10. You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.

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#11. If only she were a boy, speeding in khaki by Carol's side to the western front! She had wished that in a burst of romance when Jem had gone, without perhaps, meaning it. She meant it now. There were moments when waiting at home, in safety and comfort, seemed an unendurable thing.

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#12. Well, one must be a slave to something in this kind of a world,' he said.

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#13. Kingsport or feel at home there. Before

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#14. Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.

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#15. There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world - Anne Shirley

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#16. Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

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#17. I read the story of Red Riding Hood today. I think the wolf was the most interesting character in it. Red Riding Hood was a stupid little thing so easily fooled.

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#18. When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

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#19. Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol.

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#20. Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.

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#21. She'd been real melancholy in the fall - religious melancholy - it ran in her family. Her father worried so much over believing that he had committed the unpardonable sin that he died in the asylum.

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#22. I can't cheer up - I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

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

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#24. There are--plenty--without you."
"That isn't the point, Rilla-my-Rilla. I'm going for my own sake--to save my soul alive. It will shrink to something small and mean and lifeless if I don't go. That would be worse than blindness or mutilation or any of the things I've feared.

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#25. closed behind Anne

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#26. In life, as in dreams, however, things often go by contraries

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#27. It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

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#28. I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business.

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#29. I don't want to talk as much,' she said, denting her chin thoughtfully with her forefinger. 'It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures.

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#30. I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris

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#31. Clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a

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#32. I believe in a girl being fitted to earn her own living whether she ever has to or not. You'll

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#33. There the rose of joy bloomed immortal by dale and stream; clouds never darkened the sunny sky; sweet bells never jangled out of tune; and kindred spirits abounded.

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#34. Aunt Elizabeth," said Katherine one day, "does anybody ever die in Harbour Hill? Because it doesn't seem to me it would be any change for them if they did.

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#35. It's no wonder we can't understand the grown-ups," said the Story Girl indignantly, "because we've never been grown-up ourselves. But THEY have been children, and I don't see why they can't understand us.

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#36. You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair.
- Anne Shirley

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#37. I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.

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#38. Have you ever noticed," asked Anne reflectively, "that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

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#39. Don't let them make anything of you but yourself, that's all.

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#40. To "hike" along a deep-rutted, pebbly lane in frail, silver-hued slippers with high French heels, is not an exhilirating experience.

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#41. We are fighting to make those dear old places where
we had played as children, safe for other boys and girls--fighting for the preservation and safety of all sweet, wholesome things.

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#42. We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

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#43. Note: - One can do a great deal with appropriate smiles. I must study the subject carefully. The friendly smile - the scornful smile - the detached smile - the entreating smile - the common or garden grin.

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#44. Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won't come till I've seen everything in it.

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#45. When we have to do a thing...we can do it.

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#46. I asked Doss if she had no regard for appearancs. She said, 'I've been keeping up appearances all my life. Now I'm going in for realities. Appearances can go hang!

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#47. If you believe in a thing it doesn't matter whether it exists or not

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#48. God is in His heaven. All is right in the world.

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#49. Today, so long, so strange, so bitter; will soon be some forgotten yesterday.

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#50. After Davy had gone to bed Anne wandered down to Victoria Island and sat there alone, curtained with fine-spun, moonlit gloom, while the water laughed around her in a duet of brook and wind.

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#51. Anne laughed.
I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.

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#52. At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.

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#53. Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.

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#54. It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

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#55. Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.

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#56. But is there not something strange about any room that has been occupied through generations? Death has lurked in it ... love has been rosy red in it ... births have been here ... all the passions ... all the hopes. It is full of wraths.

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#57. March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.

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#58. ... it's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness ...

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#59. And he wrote, When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you.

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#60. The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But while there was life there was fear.

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#61. I will not be poisoned by your bitterness.

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#62. That white birch you caught me kissing is a sister of mine. The only difference is, she's a tree and I'm a girl, but that's no real difference.

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#63. She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wandering afar, star-led.

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#64. Isn't it a pity we can't have two husbands? One to look at and one to talk to.

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#65. People who haven't natural gumption never learn," retorted Aunt Jamesina, "neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred they really don't know anything more than when they were born.

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#66. It was a gracious evening, full of delectable lights and shadows. In the west was a sky of mackerel clouds-crimson and amber-tinted, with long strips of apple-green sky between. Beyond was the glimmering radiance of a sunset sea, and the ceaseless voice of many waters came up from the tawny shore.

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#67. I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.

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#68. Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

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#69. Dear old world. You are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you - Anne Shirley

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#70. I've come home in love with loneliness

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#71. Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

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#72. 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.

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#73. Diana has only one birthday in a year. It isn't as if birthdays were common things, Marilla.

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#74. You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.

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#75. And yet ... it's the little things that fret the holes in life ... like moths ... and ruin it.

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#76. Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

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#77. But the trouble is there aren't any bends in my road. I can see it stretching straight out before me to the sky-line ... endless monotony. Oh, does life ever frighten you, Anne, with its blankness ... its swarms of cold, uninteresting people?

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#78. We belong to the race that knows Joseph

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#79. The year is a book, isn't it, Marilla? Spring's pages are written in Mayflowers and violets, summer's in roses, autumn's in red maple leaves, and winter in holly and evergreen.

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#80. It isn't fair she should have everything and I nothing. She isn't better or cleverer or much prettier than me ... only luckier.

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#81. 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?

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#82. It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice ... Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words.

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#83. 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?

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#84. you didn't to-night.

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#85. I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.

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#86. Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

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#87. I think the nicest thing about days is their unexpectedness. It's jolly to wake up like this on a golden-fine morning and day-dream for ten minutes before I get up, imagining heaps of splendid things that might happen.

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#88. Pride is cold company

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#89. The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history.

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#90. Charitable Impulse XXV. Another Scandal and Another "Explanation" XXVI. Miss Cornelia Gets a New Point of View XXVII. A Sacred Concert XXVIII. A Fast Day XXIX. A Weird Tale

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#91. It's so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

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#92. After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?

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#93. The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

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#94. The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.

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#95. She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent.

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#96. If you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be left alone.

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#97. 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.

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#98. A little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.

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#99. at last tears were all wept out and the little patient ache that was to be in her heart until she died took their place.

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#100. Revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.

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