Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

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Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.

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
But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive — it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

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

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts... it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
If it's IN you to climb you must — there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills — they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

Lucy Maud Montgomery