Sy Montgomery Quotes

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.

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

Baptize the nations! far and nigh,The triumphs of the cross recordThe name of Jesus glorify,Till every people call Him Lord.

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.

This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.

So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery

Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three.

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?

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

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

Dark-green and gemm'd with flowers of snow, With close uncrowded branches spread Not proudly high, nor meanly low, A graceful myrtle rear'd its head.

When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.

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

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!

Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.

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.

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

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

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

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

There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

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

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.

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

How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.

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 rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.

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

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

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

brains last, beauty doesn't.

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

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.