Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

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.

But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.

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

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.

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

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones".

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

As a rule I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.