Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

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

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

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Doctor Dave hasn't much tact, to be sure — he was always talking of ropes in houses where someone had hanged himself.

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it…

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
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?

Lucy Maud Montgomery
That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
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....

Lucy Maud Montgomery
A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
The woods are never solitary—they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I've done my best, and I begin to see what is meant by the 'joy of the strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

Lucy Maud Montgomery