--- title: "2 Old friends Quotes By Lucy Maud Montgomery" description: "2 Old friends quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Plus more from Lucy Maud Montgomery and more Old friends sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/lucy-maud-montgomery-1934_friendship_perhaps-after-all-romance-did-not-come-i_2985027.png" --- > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/perhaps-after-all-romance-did-not-come-into-one-s-life-with-pomp-and-3/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/lucy-maud-montgomery-1934_friendship_perhaps-after-all-romance-did-not-come-i_2985027.png) > [“Keep that red-haired girl of yours in the open air all summer and don't let her read books until she gets more spring into her step." This message frightened Marilla wholesomely. She read Anne's death warrant by consumption in it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/keep-that-red-haired-girl-of-yours-in-the-open-air-all-summer-and-don/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c1/lucy-maud-montgomery-1934_book_keep-that-red-haired-girl-of-yours-in-th_3041250.jpg) ## Other authors on Old friends - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-jane-austen-47065.jpg) Jane Austen 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-friends/jane-austen/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ray-bradbury-77494.jpg) Ray Bradbury 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-friends/ray-bradbury/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dalai-lama-26000.jpg) Dalai Lama 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-friends/dalai-lama/) ## More by Lucy Maud Montgomery > [“Tell me this--if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew you'd never have a line published--would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/tell-me-this-if-you-knew-you-would-be-poor-as-a-church-mouse-all-your/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) > [Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/of-all-the-uncertain-things-marriage-is-the-uncertainest/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) > [if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/if-i-can-t-get-what-i-want-well-i-ll-want-what-i-can-get/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) > [It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/it-was-october-again-a-glorious-october-all-red-and-gold-with-mellow/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) > [Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/without-shedding-of-blood-there-is-no-anything-everything-it-seems-to/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) > [Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/isn-t-it-good-just-to-be-alive-on-a-day-like-this-i-pity-the-people/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) > [An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/an-old-house-with-its-windows-gone-always-makes-me-think-of-something/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) > [What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/what-is-it-really-like-to-be-engaged-asked-anne-curiously-well-that/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) > [Hark, I hear a robin calling! List, the wind is from the south! And the orchard-bloom is falling Sweet as kisses on the mouth.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/hark-i-hear-a-robin-calling-list-the-wind-is-from-the-south-and-the/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) > [As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/as-she-walked-along-she-dramatized-the-night-there-was-about-it-a/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) > [“In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/in-this-life-you-ve-got-to-hope-for-the-best-prepare-for-the-worst/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) > [“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/you-re-not-eating-anything-said-marilla-sharply-eying-her-as-if-it/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) > [There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/there-is-no-use-in-loving-things-if-you-have-to-be-torn-from-them-is/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/that-s-a-lovely-idea-diana-said-anne-enthusiastically-living-so-that/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) > [There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-maud-montgomery/there-are-many-worse-friends-than-the-soft-silent-furry-cat-folk/) [Lucy Maud Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-maud-montgomery/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/old-friends/lucy-maud-montgomery/#itemlist", "name": "2 Old friends Quotes By Lucy Maud Montgomery", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... 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