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Wells Quotes by 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 maddening…
- There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
- Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell…
- We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be…
- Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.
- I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. [....] Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more…
- We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after…
- I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time…
- In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well
- Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their…
- 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 the depths of…
- I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit.
- Since you are determined to be married, Miss Cornelia," said Gilbert solemnly, "I shall give you the excellent rules for the management of a husband…
- It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to…
- …I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be…
- 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…
- Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.
- But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress — because when you are imagining…
- I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper,…
- Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen…
- …always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches…
- I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.
- But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as…
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong