Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes & Sayings

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest ... — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three - just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct. — 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. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment ... — Lucy Maud Montgomery

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each one out from its fellows. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it? — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be
to me in all events
a terrible thing without books. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

It doesn't take long to stay an hour. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

Have you ever noticed how many silences there are Gilbert? The silence of the woods ... of the shore ... of the meadows ... of the night ... of the summer afternoon. All different because the undertones that thread them are different. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either ... — Lucy Maud Montgomery

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

If I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Night is beautiful when you are happy
comforting when you are in grief
terrible when you are lonely and unhappy. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

The little things in life often make more trouble than the big things. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy? — Lucy Maud Montgomery

When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite - always. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful. — 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.
In the dreamy vale of beeches
Fair and faint is woven mist,
And the river's orient reaches
Are the palest amethyst.
Every limpid brook is singing
Of the lure of April days;
Every piney glen is ringing
With the maddest roundelays.
Come and let us seek together
Springtime lore of daffodils,
Giving to the golden weather
Greeting on the sun-warm hills. — 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 if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain - amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

A few italics really do relieve your feelings. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful - just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically, ... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success
a dream of adventure
a dream of the sea
a dream of the woodland
any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream? — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne Shirley. Anne with an e. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I don't like green Christmases. They're not green - they're just nasty faded browns and grays. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view, — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon and I don't exactly know what to do with it. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain. — Lucy Maud Montgomery