Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet.

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.

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.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.

How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.

brains last, beauty doesn't.

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.

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

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. -Aunt Jimsie

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

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.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

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.

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

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

I am simply a book drunkard.

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

... we always love best the people who need us.

I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.

Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.