“One can't stay sad for long in such an interesting world, can one?” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Let me remind you that the measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without.” — L.M. Montgomery Freedom Copy Share Image
“[She] may be an acquired taste with some folks; but I didn't keep on eating bananas because I was told I'd learn… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“He believed he was dead and used to rage at his wife because she wouldn't bury him. I'd a-done it.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Oh, Aunt Elizabeth," said Emily breathlessly, "when you hold the candle down like that it makes your face look just like a… — L.M. Montgomery Candle Copy Share Image
“Anne was curled up Turk-fashion on the hearthrug, gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a hundred summers was being… — L.M. Montgomery Sunshine Copy Share Image
“Oh, daddy, by what witchcraft have you coaxed that sulky rose-bush into bloom?' 'No witchcraft at all - it just bloomed because… — L.M. Montgomery Coming home Copy Share Image
“I detest that woman [Rachel Lynde] more than anybody I know. She can put a whole sermon, text, comment, and application, into… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Now, Anne, don't look as if you were trying to understand. Seventeen can't understand.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's… — L.M. Montgomery Cats Copy Share Image
“Her beauty is the least of her dower-and she is the most beautiful woman I've ever known. That laugh of hers! I've… — L.M. Montgomery Beautiful woman Copy Share Image
“Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay… — L.M. Montgomery Adventure Copy Share Image
“Well, that was life. Gladness and pain... hope and fear... and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to… — L.M. Montgomery Change Copy Share Image
“No, I've neither wife nor progeny, Miss Plum. I've often tried to get married, but something always prevented. Sometimes everyone was willing… — L.M. Montgomery Marriage Copy Share Image
“It was a gracious evening, full of delectable lights and shadows. In the west was a sky of mackerel clouds-crimson and amber-tinted,… — L.M. Montgomery Moon Copy Share Image
“I don’t like reading about martyrs because they always make me feel petty and ashamed... ashamed to admit I hate to get… — L.M. Montgomery Ashamed Copy Share Image
“I could spank Constantine and skin him alive afterwards, that I could," she exclaimed bitterly. "Oh, Susan, I'm surprised at you," said… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice...Well, anyway, when… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“On one side, across the channel, stretched the silvery sand shore of the bar; on the other extended a long, curving beach… — L.M. Montgomery Solitude Copy Share Image
“Well, that is all the notes and there is not much else in the paper of any importance. I never take much… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Anne had no sooner uttered the phrase, "home o'dreams," than it captivated her fancy and she immediately began the erection of one… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know… — L.M. Montgomery Children Copy Share Image
“And two years ago this morning I woke wondering what delightful gift the new day would give me. These are the two… — L.M. Montgomery New day Copy Share Image
“You see, it's this way. It is inme. I can't help it. And Father said I was always to keep on writing. He said I… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I’m going home to an old country farmhouse, once green, rather faded now, set among leafless apple orchards. There is a brook… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“As for Mr. Meredith," said Miss Cornelia, "even his engagement has made a different man of him. He isn't half so dreamy… — L.M. Montgomery Children Copy Share Image
“Well, we’re not getting a girl,” said Marilla, as if poisoning wells were a purely feminine accomplishment and not to be dreaded… — L.M. Montgomery Feminine Copy Share Image
“And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head -… — L.M. Montgomery Humor Copy Share Image
“Marilla, what if I fail!' 'You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla.” — L.M. Montgomery Failure Copy Share Image
“We had a yelling contest there the other night to see which could yell the loudest. To my surprise I found I… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“There’s no men like that nowadays. This is a degenerate age, Miss Shirley.” “Homer said the same thing eight hundred years, B.C.,”… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“He was a cat of double personality - or else, as Susan vowed, he was possessed by the devil.” — L.M. Montgomery Devil Copy Share Image
“He was one of your wicked, fascinating men. After he got married he left off being fascinating and just kept on being… — L.M. Montgomery Humor Copy Share Image
“Why, for mercy's sake, did boys try to dance who didn't know the first thing about dancing; and who had feet as… — L.M. Montgomery Compassion Copy Share Image
“Do you know what? I think the evening star is a lighthouse on the land where the fairies dwell.” — L.M. Montgomery Moon Copy Share Image
“hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a… — L.M. Montgomery Children Copy Share Image
“A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.” — L.M. Montgomery Animal cruelty Copy Share Image
“I hope you don't think I'm one of those terrible people who make you feel that you have to talk to them… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Oh, drat the men! No matter what they do, it's the wrong thing. And no matter who they are, it's somebody they… — L.M. Montgomery Humorous-quotations Copy Share Image
“Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.” — L.M. Montgomery Books Copy Share Image