L M Montomery Quotes

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

Cousin Jimmy thinks I did perfectly right. Cousin Jimmy would think I had done perfectly right if I had murdered Andrew and buried him in the Land of Uprightness. It's very nice to have one friend like that, though too many wouldn't be good for you. ~ L.M. Montgomery

If the bards of old the true has told
The sirens have raven hair.
But over the earth since art had birth,
They paint the angels fair. ~ L.M. Montgomery

It is a start, and I mean to keep on, I find written in my old journal of that year. ~ L.M. Montgomery

The faint laughter of winds was always about them and the colors of Mistawis, imperial and spiritual, under the changing clouds, were something that cannot be expressed in mere words. Shadows, too. Clustering in the pines until a wind shook them out and pursued them over Mistawis. They lay all day along the shores, threaded by ferns and wild blossoms. They stole around the headlands in the glow of the sunset, until twilight wove them all into one great web of dusk. ~ L.M. Montgomery

…but youth yearned to youth. ~ L.M. Montgomery

Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad."
Anne: "You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we both have wonderful imaginations. We should be as happy as queens."
[gestures to the setting sun]
Anne Shirley: "Look at that. You couldn't enjoy its loveliness more if you had ropes of diamonds. ~ L.M. Montgomery

Good-evening, Miss Stirling.
Nothing could be more commonplace and conventional.
Any one might have said it. But Barney Snaith had a way of saying things that gave them poignancy. When he said good-evening you felt that it was a good evening and it was partly his doing that it was. Also, you felt that some of the credit was yours. ~ L.M. Montgomery

All things great are wound up with all things little. ~ L.M. Montgomery

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.
'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you. ~ L.M. Montgomery

Anne laughed.
I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you. ~ L.M. Montgomery

Oh, what I know about myself isn't really worth telling, said Anne eagerly. If you'll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you'll think it ever so much more interesting. ~ L.M. Montgomery

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, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement. ~ L.M. Montgomery

Even Billy Andrews' boy is going - and Jane's only son - and Diana's little Jack," said Mrs. Blythe. "Priscilla's son has gone from Japan and Stella's from Vancouver - and both the Rev. Jo's boys. Philippa writes that her boys 'went right away, not being afflicted with her indecision. ~ L.M. Montgomery

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..."Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed."... ~ L.M. Montgomery

Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness. ~ L.M. Montgomery

I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism. ~ L.M. Montgomery

That night Anne knelt sweetly by her open window in a great sheen of moonshine and murmured a prayer of gratitude and aspiration that came straight from her heart. There was in it thankfulness for the past and reverent petition for the future; and when she slept on her white pillow her dreams were as fair and bright and beautiful as maidenhood might desire. ~ L.M. Montgomery

Make a still bigger fool of himself, if he tried. I ~ L.M. Montgomery

I apologized pretty well, didn't I?" she said proudly as they went down the lane. "I thought since I had to do it I might as well do it thoroughly." "You did it thoroughly, all right enough," was Marilla's comment. Marilla was dismayed at finding herself inclined to laugh over the recollection. She had also an uneasy feeling that she ought to scold Anne for apologizing so well; but then, that was ridiculous! ~ L.M. Montgomery

Strange, ain't it, how folks seem to resent anyone being born a mite cleverer than they be. ~ L.M. Montgomery

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers. ~ L.M. Montgomery

Being in love makes you a perfect slave, I think. And it would give a man such power to hurt you ~ L.M. Montgomery

Chopsticks or no chopsticks, it was the Chinese who first used knives and forks. ~ L. M. Boyd

If evil gets us to buy into their deceptive lies, then truth never gets a chance to be anything but crazy. ~ L.M. Fields

Truth is harder to find when everyone claims to own it. ~ L.M. Fields

But I'll have to ask you to wait a long time, Anne," said Gilbert sadly. "It will be three years before I'll finish my medical course. And even then there will be no diamond sunbursts and marble halls."

Anne laughed.

"I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. You see I'm quite as shameless as Phil about it. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more `scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other -- and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now."

Gilbert drew her close to him and kissed her. Then they walked home together in the dusk, crowned king and queen in the bridal realm of love, along winding paths fringed with the sweetest flowers that ever bloomed, and over haunted meadows where winds of hope and memory blew. ~ L.M. Montgomery

We humans are the only creatures on the planet capable of articulating worlds which are contrary, even in the most minor way, to reality. Every story, I think, begins there. With a dream. A fantasy. ~ L.M. Halloran

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

Diana couldn't be improved upon even by imagination. ~ L.M. Montgomery

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

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change! ~ L.M. Montgomery