Lucy Maud Montgomery
Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!Collection: Insulting
That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.Collection: People
But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?Collection: Imagination
Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.Collection: Being Thankful
It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.Collection: Kind
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?Collection: Looks
Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.Collection: Book
Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.Collection: Blue
There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.Collection: Thinking
But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.Collection: Thinking
There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.Collection: Lonely
I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.Collection: Night
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, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?Collection: Body
It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.Collection: Wicked
Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?Collection: Thinking
I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.Collection: Sweet
Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert herCollection: Desert
But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.Collection: Feelings
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.Collection: Lying
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.Collection: Husband
But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism. All the Beyond was hers, with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years — each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.Collection: Dream
Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.Collection: Pain
It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.Collection: Soul
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.Collection: Cat
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 cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.Collection: Ambition
And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.Collection: Next
No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.Collection: Ancestor
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.Collection: Wicked
Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.Collection: Soul
Anne reveled in the world of color about her. "Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill--several thrills?Collection: Morning
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 stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.Collection: Beautiful
“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 despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”Collection: Despair
Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.Collection: Mother
Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.Collection: Disappointment
Anne Shirley. Anne with an "e.Collection: Anne Shirley
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.Collection: Vanity
[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but in the end, I'd still prefer the sound of the wind in the firs across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal.Collection: Thinking
Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.Collection: Beautiful
You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.Collection: Soulmate
It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.Collection: Feet
The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.Collection: Inspirational
Oh, we're very careful, Marilla. And it's so interesting. Two flashes means, "Are you there?" Three means "yes" and four "no." Five means, "Come over as soon as possible, because I have something important to reveal." Diana has just signalled five flashes, and I'm really suffering to know what it is.Collection: Mean
Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!Collection: Love You
...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.Collection: Appreciation
March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.Collection: Twilight
We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.Collection: Beautiful
I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.Collection: Night
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Lonely