Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea (1909)

71 Sourced Quotes

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

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'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
If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?

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
You're never safe from being surprised till you're dead.

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

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
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
The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed... perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either... they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
The little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

Lucy Maud Montgomery
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

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

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
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
Anne's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen's; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!

Lucy Maud Montgomery