Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
When twilight drops her curtain down. And pins it with a star
Remember that you have a friend
Though she may wander far.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life...

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I remembered Elizabeth had never laughed once during our talk. I feel that she hasn't learned how. The great house is so still and lonely and laughterless. It looks dull and gloomy even now when the world is a riot of autumn color. Little Elizabeth is doing too much listening to lost whispers.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field 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.

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
When he could not understand a thing he straight way condemned it. Simplicity itself!

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Don't try to write anything you can't feel — it will be a failure.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery