Quotes from Lucy Maud Montgomery

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

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 place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

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

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

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

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?