Top 100 L M Montgomery Quotes
#1. If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up. -L.M. Montgomery
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#2. Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'
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#3. 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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#4. ... there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.
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#5. It is a start, and I mean to keep on, I find written in my old journal of that year.
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#6. Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.
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#8. 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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#9. That's the worst of growing up,
and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so
much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful
to you when you get them.
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#11. More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.
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#12. I thought Marilla Cuthburt was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but I guess she didn't make much of a mistake after all. If I'd a child like Anne in the house all the time I'd be a better and happier woman.
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#13. Of unquenchable sparkle and dream as ever. Behind her, in the hammock, Rilla Blythe was curled up, a fat, roly-poly little creature of
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#14. I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.
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#15. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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#16. We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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#17. He was one of your wicked, fascinating men. After he got married he left off being fascinating and just kept on being wicked.
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#18. There's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.
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#19. Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese.
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#20. When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
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#21. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only - a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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#22. crimson. A faint blue haze rested on the eastern hill, over which a great, pale, round moon was just floating up like a silver bubble. They were
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#23. If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne, said Gilbert
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#24. I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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#25. Nothing good about this but it's title. A priggish little yarn. And Hidden Riches is not a story
it's a machine. It creaks. It never made me forget for one instant that it was a story. Hence it isn't a story.
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#26. 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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#27. I like teaching, too," said Gilbert. "It's good training, for one thing. Why, Anne, I've learned more in the weeks I've been teaching the young ideas of White Sands than I learned in all the years I went to school myself.
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#29. Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams mean everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important.
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#30. People who have to look after twins can't be expected to say their prayers. Now, do you honestly think they can?
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#31. Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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#32. The day never goes by for men and nations to make asses of themselves and take to the fists.
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#35. Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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#36. And as for risk, there's risk in pretty near everything a body does in this world. - Marilla Cuthbert
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#37. Yes; but if dryads are foolish they must take the consequences, just as if they were real people," said Paul gravely. "Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams.
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#38. Steal not this book for fear of shame
For on it is the owners name
And when you die the Lord will say
Where is the book you stole away
And when you say you do not know
The Lord will say go down below.
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#39. Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.
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#40. ... I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
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#41. Dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while - and
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#42. Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring ... I think it would be ever so much better than having it in November when everything is dead or asleep. Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful ... that they are alive, if for nothing else.
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#44. I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.
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#45. She had ... the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.
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#46. It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN.
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#47. The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't things be the same again - when everything is over and Jem and Jerry are back? We'll all be happy and jolly again and these days will seem just like a bad dream.
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#48. The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne's heart and on her lips.
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#49. When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.
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#50. Every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them.
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#51. 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.
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#52. Never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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#53. Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story ... Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)
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#54. People say men are interesting. They may be. But I shall never get well enough acquainted with any of them to find out.
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#55. 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.
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#56. And over the river
in purple durance the
echoes bided there time.
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#58. Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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#59. Green Gables has been translated into Swedish and Dutch. My copy of the Swedish edition always gives me the inestimable boon of a laugh. The cover design is a full length figure of Anne, wearing a sunbonnet, carrying the famous carpet-bag, and with hair that is literally of an intense scarlet!
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#60. Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did?
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#61. You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.
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#62. ... I'm afraid Katherine likes me so much now that she can't always like me as much ...
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#63. It's lovely to be going home and know it's home. I love green gables already, and I've never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy.
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#65. What if you never meet him?
Then I shall die an old maid, was the cheerful response. I daresay it isn't the hardest death by any means.
Oh, I suppose the dying would be easy enough, it's the living an old maid I shouldn't like, said Diana, with no intention of being humorous.
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#66. Well, all I hope," said Miss Cornelia calmly, "is that when I'm dead nobody will call me 'our departed sister.
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#67. 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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#68. The minister who is candidating can't be too careful what text he chooses,
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#69. People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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#70. Anne Shirley, how often have I told you never to let one of those Italians in the house! I don't believe in encouraging them to come around at all.
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#71. No. I don't think I've ever been really lonely in my life," answered Anne. "Even when I'm alone I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I LIKE to be alone now and then, just to think over things and TASTE them.
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#72. Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither.
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#73. I never knew before that religion was such a cheerful thing. I always thought it was kind of melancholy, but Mrs. Allan's isn't, and I'd like to be a Christian if I could be one like her.
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#74. Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
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#75. She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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#76. I had always disliked men. It must have been born in me, because, as far back as I can remember, an antipathy to men and dogs was one of my strongest characteristics. I was noted for that. My experiences through life only served to deepen it. The more I saw of men, the more I liked cats.
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#77. And anyhow I'd always be too tired at night to bother saying prayers. People who have to look after twins can't be expected to say their prayers. Now,
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#78. 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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#79. He certainly must have money, for he has just showered Jane with jewelry. Her engagement ring is a diamond cluster so big that it looks like a plaster on Jane's fat paw.
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#80. For 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.
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#82. I doubted God last Sunday " said Rilla "but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh.
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#83. When common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
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#84. Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.
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#85. It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant ...
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#86. Why should one hate you when you were so small? Could you be worth hating?
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#87. Yes, red-to give warmth to that milk-white skin and those shining gray-green eyes of yours. Golden hair wouldn't suit you at all Queen Anne-My Queen Anne-queen of my heart and life and home.
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#88. Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.
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#89. How quiet the woods are today... not a murmur except that soft wind putting in the treetops! It sounds like surf on a faraway shore. How dear the woods are! You beautiful trees! I love every one of you as a friend!
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#90. She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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#91. It's snowing some today and Marilla says the old woman in the sky is shaking her feather beds. Is the old woman in the sky God's wife, Anne? I want to know. Mrs.
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#92. You wanted to be Mrs. and Mrs. you shall be with a vengeance as far as I am concerned." Miss
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#94. That's one of the things we learn as we grow older
how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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#95. It was nearly as long as a minister's and so poetical. But
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#96. I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
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#97. You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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#98. Changes ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy.
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#100. You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that.
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