Top 75 Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
#1. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#2. I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment ...
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#3. Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#4. That is one good thing about this world ... there are always sure to be more springs.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#5. I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#6. The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#7. Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#9. 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.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#10. When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite - always.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#11. Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#12. One reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#13. You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#15. I don't like green Christmases. They're not green - they're just nasty faded browns and grays.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#16. I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful - just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#21. Night is beautiful when you are happy
comforting when you are in grief
terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#24. Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#25. When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#28. 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.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#32. Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three - just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#35. I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#36. I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#38. There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#40. It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#41. Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each one out from its fellows.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#42. Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#44. 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.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#45. I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#46. I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#47. A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#48. Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#49. As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#53. Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#54. We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#55. Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#57. Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#58. There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#59. A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#60. An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#64. Have you ever noticed how many silences there are Gilbert? The silence of the woods ... of the shore ... of the meadows ... of the night ... of the summer afternoon. All different because the undertones that thread them are different.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#65. It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either ...
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#66. How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.
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#67. Trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#68. Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be
to me in all events
a terrible thing without books.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#71. 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.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#72. I feel as though someone's handed me the moon and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#74. 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 overcome them.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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