--- title: "16 Anne Quotes By L.M. Montgomery" description: "16 Anne quotes by L.M. Montgomery. Plus more from L.M. Montgomery and more Anne sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccf/l-m-montgomery-567_anne_heaven-must-be-very-beautiful-of-course_721247.jpg" --- > [“Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/heaven-must-be-very-beautiful-of-course-the-bible-says-so-but-anne-it/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccf/l-m-montgomery-567_anne_heaven-must-be-very-beautiful-of-course_721247.jpg) > [“One can always find something lovely to look at or listen to,' said Anne.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/one-can-always-find-something-lovely-to-look-at-or-listen-to-said-anne/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/l-m-montgomery-567_anne_one-can-always-find-something-lovely-to_3066286.jpg) > [“You'll stay right here with me, Anne-girl," said Gilbert lazily. "I won't have you flying away from me into the hearts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/you-ll-stay-right-here-with-me-anne-girl-said-gilbert-lazily-i-won-t/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65e/l-m-montgomery-567_anne_you-ll-stay-right-here-with-me-anne-girl_884958.jpg) > [“Now, Anne, don't look as if you were trying to understand. Seventeen can't understand.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/now-anne-don-t-look-as-if-you-were-trying-to-understand-seventeen-can/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e3/l-m-montgomery-567_anne_now-anne-don-t-look-as-if-you-were-tryin_3143495.jpg) > [“It doesn't seem FAIR, said Anne rebelliously. Babies are born and live where they are not wanted-where they will be neglected-where they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/it-doesn-t-seem-fair-said-anne-rebelliously-babies-are-born-and-live/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa0/l-m-montgomery-567_anne_it-doesn-t-seem-fair-said-anne-rebelliou_591946.jpg) > [“Anne had never seen Mrs. Merrill before and never saw her again, but she always remembered her as a woman who had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/anne-had-never-seen-mrs-merrill-before-and-never-saw-her-again-but/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/218/l-m-montgomery-567_life_anne-had-never-seen-mrs-merrill-before-a_983061.jpg) > [“Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life," declared Anne. "I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/well-i-don-t-want-to-be-anyone-but-myself-even-if-i-go-uncomforted-by/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d6/l-m-montgomery-567_anne_well-i-don-t-want-to-be-anyone-but-mysel_259005.jpg) > [“Perhaps it was nothing very dreadful after all. I think the little things in life often make more trouble than the big…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/perhaps-it-was-nothing-very-dreadful-after-all-i-think-the-little/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d2/l-m-montgomery-567_big-things_perhaps-it-was-nothing-very-dreadful-aft_2018629.jpg) > [“Yes, red-to give warmth to that milk-white skin and those shining gray-green eyes of yours. Golden hair wouldn't suit you at all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/yes-red-to-give-warmth-to-that-milk-white-skin-and-those-shining-gray/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5f/l-m-montgomery-567_anne_yes-red-to-give-warmth-to-that-milk-whit_495214.jpg) > [“I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything," said Jane. "Oh, I can easily understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/i-can-t-understand-how-she-could-have-wanted-to-live-back-here-away/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/264/l-m-montgomery-567_anne_i-can-t-understand-how-she-could-have-wa_3234366.jpg) > [“Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/anne-looked-at-the-white-young-mother-with-a-certain-awe-that-had/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/851/l-m-montgomery-567_l-m-montgomery_anne-looked-at-the-white-young-mother-wi_636436.jpg) > [“Oh, it makes SUCH a difference. It LOOKS so much nicer. When you hear a name pronounced can't you always see it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/oh-it-makes-such-a-difference-it-looks-so-much-nicer-when-you-hear-a/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/468/l-m-montgomery-567_names_oh-it-makes-such-a-difference-it-looks-s_1741394.jpg) > [“Anne had wandered down the the Dryard's Bubble and was curled up among the ferns at the root of the n=big white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/anne-had-wandered-down-the-the-dryard-s-bubble-and-was-curled-up/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/549/l-m-montgomery-567_deeply-in-love_anne-had-wandered-down-the-the-dryard-s_1618920.jpg) > [“Anne, look here. Can’t we be good friends?” For a moment Anne hesitated. She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/anne-look-here-can-t-we-be-good-friends-for-a-moment-anne-hesitated/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9c/l-m-montgomery-567_anne_anne-look-here-can-t-we-be-good-friends_887817.jpg) > [“Oh, Charlotta dear, I'd have told you all about it if it were my secret...but it's Miss Lavendar's, you see. However, I'll…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/oh-charlotta-dear-i-d-have-told-you-all-about-it-if-it-were-my-secret/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34d/l-m-montgomery-567_anne_oh-charlotta-dear-i-d-have-told-you-all_795679.jpg) > [“Dear old Jane is a jewel,” agreed Anne, “but,” she added, leaning forward to bestow a tender pat on the plump, dimpled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/dear-old-jane-is-a-jewel-agreed-anne-but-she-added-leaning-forward-to/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be4/l-m-montgomery-567_first-met_dear-old-jane-is-a-jewel-agreed-anne-but_1599861.jpg) ## Other authors on Anne ## More by L.M. Montgomery > [“The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/the-other-day-nan-said-nothing-can-ever-be-quite-the-same-for-any-of/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/it-s-a-very-bad-habit-to-put-off-disagreeable-things/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“Who was it said, ‘We forget because we must’? He was right.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/who-was-it-said-we-forget-because-we-must-he-was-right/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“I don't think it's any help that it's your habit. What would you think of a person who went about sticking pins and needles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/i-don-t-think-it-s-any-help-that-it-s-your-habit-what-would-you-think/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“What a splendid day! Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/what-a-splendid-day-isn-t-it-good-just-to-be-alive-on-a-day-like-this/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“I told you the Bible was more to be depended on than newspapers!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/i-told-you-the-bible-was-more-to-be-depended-on-than-newspapers/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“On a day like this there's no such word as fail in my bright lexicon.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/on-a-day-like-this-there-s-no-such-word-as-fail-in-my-bright-lexicon/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“I took the brooch because I was too overcome with irresistible temptation. I was imagining I was Lady Cordelia Fitzgerald, and I just had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/i-took-the-brooch-because-i-was-too-overcome-with-irresistible/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“…she made a poem on it at once, the lines singing themselves through her consciousness without effort. With one side of her nature she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/she-made-a-poem-on-it-at-once-the-lines-singing-themselves-through/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“I think there are two kinds of TRUE THINGS-- true things that ARE, and true things that ARE NOT, but MIGHT be.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/i-think-there-are-two-kinds-of-true-things-true-things-that-are-and/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“when the darkness is close to us it is a friend. But when we sorter push it away from us—divorce ourselves from it, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/when-the-darkness-is-close-to-us-it-is-a-friend-but-when-we-sorter/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“Yesterday she had been all her own. Now she was this man's.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/yesterday-she-had-been-all-her-own-now-she-was-this-man-s/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it's nicer…' Anne…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/i-suppose-that-s-how-it-looks-in-prose-but-it-s-very-different-if-you/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/ilse-and-i-hunted-all-over-the-old-orchard-today-for-a-four-leaved/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) > [“Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/nothing-seems-worthwhile-my-very-thoughts-are-old-i-ve-thought-them/) [L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-m-montgomery/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anne/l-m-montgomery/#itemlist", "name": "16 Anne Quotes By L.M. Montgomery", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "L.M. 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I think the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things,' said Anne with one of those flashes of insight which experience could not have bettered.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "L.M. Montgomery" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/perhaps-it-was-nothing-very-dreadful-after-all-i-think-the-little/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d2/l-m-montgomery-567_big-things_perhaps-it-was-nothing-very-dreadful-aft_2018629.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d2/l-m-montgomery-567_big-things_perhaps-it-was-nothing-very-dreadful-aft_2018629.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d2/l-m-montgomery-567_big-things_perhaps-it-was-nothing-very-dreadful-aft_2018629.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Perhaps it was nothing very dreadful after all. I think the little things in life often make more trouble…” — L.M. 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When you hear a name pronounced can't you always see it in your mind, just as if it was printed out? I can; and A-n-n looks dreadful, but A-n-n-e looks so much more distinguished. If you'll only call me Anne spelled with an E I shall try to reconcile myself to not being called Cordelia.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "L.M. Montgomery" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-m-montgomery/oh-it-makes-such-a-difference-it-looks-so-much-nicer-when-you-hear-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/468/l-m-montgomery-567_names_oh-it-makes-such-a-difference-it-looks-s_1741394.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/468/l-m-montgomery-567_names_oh-it-makes-such-a-difference-it-looks-s_1741394.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/468/l-m-montgomery-567_names_oh-it-makes-such-a-difference-it-looks-s_1741394.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Oh, it makes SUCH a difference. It LOOKS so much nicer. 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Anne felt herself more deeply in love with him that ever when she read the; but her heart never game that queer, quick, painful bound at sight of his letters which had given one day when Mrs. Hiram Sloane had handed her out an envelope addressed in Gilbert's black, upright handwriting. Anne had hurried home to the east gable and opened it eagrly--to find a typewritten copy of some college society report--\"only that and nothing more.\" Anne flung the harmless screed across her room and sat down to write and especially nice epistle to Roy”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "L.M. 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Can’t we be good friends?” For a moment Anne hesitated. She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity that the half-shy, half-eager expression in Gilbert’s hazel eyes was something that was very good to see. Her heart gave a quick, queer little beat. But the bitterness of her old grievance promptly stiffened up her wavering determination. That scene of two years before flashed back into her recollection as vividly as if it had taken place yesterday. Gilbert had called her “carrots” and had brought about her disdain before the whole school. Her resentment, which to other and older people might be as laughable as its cause, was in no whit allayed and softened by time seemingly. She hated Gilbert Blythe! She would never forgive him!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "L.M. 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I should have been miserable if it hadn’t been for that strange little dreamlife of mine, wherein I imagined all the friends and love I craved. But when I came to Green Gables everything was changed. And then I met you. You don’t know what your friendship meant to me. I want to thank you here and now, dear, for the warm and true affection you’ve always given me.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "L.M. 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