Top 500 L.M. Montgomery Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.”

— L.M. Montgomery

302. “The night was so very still that one should have been able to hear the whisper of roses in blossom – the laughter of daisies – the piping of grasses – many sweet sounds, all tangled up together. The beauty of moonlight on familiar fields irradiated the world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

304. “Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.”

— L.M. Montgomery

305. “Don’t give up all your romance, Anne,” he whispered shyly, “a little bit is a good thing – not too much, of course, but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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306. “Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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307. “Don’t be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.”

— L.M. Montgomery

308. “An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.”

— L.M. Montgomery

309. “People who don’t like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

311. “I know they’ll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn’t be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure.”

— L.M. Montgomery

312. “There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it’s so hard to keep from loving things, isn’t it?”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

314. “I know you’re a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven’s sake pretend you’re not for five minutes.”

— L.M. Montgomery

315. “It doesn’t matter if a man does use bad grammar so long as he is a good provider and doesn’t go poking round the pantry to see how much sugar you’ve used in a week.”

— L.M. Montgomery

316. “It is hard to understand why work should be called a curse – until one remembers what bitterness forced or uncongenial labour is. But the work for which we are fitted – which we feel we are sent into the world to do – what a blessing it is and what fullness of joy it holds.”

— L.M. Montgomery

317. “Ruby Gillis says when she grows up she’s going to have ever so many beaus on the string and have them all crazy about her; but I think that would be too exciting. I’d rather just have one in his right mind.”

— L.M. Montgomery

318. “It’s good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.”

— L.M. Montgomery

319. “I’m afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.”

— L.M. Montgomery

320. “Oh, Gilbert, don’t let’s ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.”

— L.M. Montgomery

321. “There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won’t talk back – unless it is a woman who won’t.”

— L.M. Montgomery

322. “Those who knew Anne best felt, without realizing that they felt it, that her greatest attraction was the aura of possibility surrounding her... the power of future development that was in her. She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen. As.”

— L.M. Montgomery

323. “It only seems as if you are doing something when you’re worrying.”

— L.M. Montgomery

324. “There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

325. “That is one consolation when you are poor – there are so many more things you can imagine about.”

— L.M. Montgomery

326. “Gilbert would never have dreamed of writing a sonnet to her eyebrows. But then, Gilbert could see a joke. She had once told Roy a funny story – and he had not seen the point of it. She recalled the chummy laugh she and Gilbert had had together over it, and wondered uneasily if life with a man who had no sense of humor might not be somewhat uninteresting in the long run. But who could expect a melancholy, inscrutable hero to see the humorous side of things? It would be flatly unreasonable.”

— L.M. Montgomery

327. “I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination.”

— L.M. Montgomery

328. “Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.”

— L.M. Montgomery

329. “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!”

— L.M. Montgomery

330. “I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them. – Miss Barry.”

— L.M. Montgomery

331. “I suppose all this sounds very crazy – all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken – only felt and endured.”

— L.M. Montgomery

332. “Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.”

— L.M. Montgomery

333. “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.”

— L.M. Montgomery

334. “Don’t give up all your romance Anne, a little of it is a good thing – not too much of course-but keep a little of it – Matthew Cuthbert.”

— L.M. Montgomery

335. “Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams. And when it tips on a cloud some of them spill out and fall into your sleep.”

— L.M. Montgomery

336. “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.”

— L.M. Montgomery

337. “Anne, on her way to Orchard Slope, met Diana, bound for Green Gables, just where the mossy old log bridge spanned the brook below the Haunted Wood, and they sat down by the margin of the Dryad’s Bubble, where tiny ferns were unrolling like curly-headed green pixy folk wakening up from a nap.”

— L.M. Montgomery

338. “It’s not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn’t; It’s only vanity when you get puffed up about them.”

— L.M. Montgomery

339. “If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I’d look up into the sky – up – up – up – into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I’d just FEEL a prayer.”

— L.M. Montgomery

340. “Gods in his heaven, all’s right with the world.”

— L.M. Montgomery

341. “I’m always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.”

— L.M. Montgomery

342. “Experience teaches sense. You can’t learn it in a college course.”

— L.M. Montgomery

343. “Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren’t my thoughts. I couldn’t think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.”

— L.M. Montgomery

344. “Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.”

— L.M. Montgomery

345. “The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.”

— L.M. Montgomery

346. “Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn’t seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.”

— L.M. Montgomery

347. “Just think of all the great and noble souls who have lived and worked in the world. Isn’t it worthwhile to come after them and inherit what they won and taught? And think of all the great people in the world today! Isn’t it worthwhile to think we can share their inspiration? And the, all the great souls that will come in the future? Isn’t it worthwhile to work a little and prepare the way for them-make just one step in their path easier? – Anne Shirley.”

— L.M. Montgomery

348. “Don’t you know ANY good husbands, Miss Bryant?” “Oh, yes, lots of them – over yonder,” said Miss Cornelia, waving her hand through the open window towards the little graveyard of the church across the harbor.”

— L.M. Montgomery

349. “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.”

— L.M. Montgomery

350. “Only lonely people keep diaries.”

— L.M. Montgomery