Lucy Maud Montgomery - People Quotes

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It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
There's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I must be getting old... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

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
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
That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.

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
I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

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.

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Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
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?

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

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
It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

Lucy Maud Montgomery