Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes

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)
It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one? View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more. View quote
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. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
I remembered Elizabeth had never laughed once during our talk. I feel that she hasn't learned how. The great house is so still and lonely and laughterless. It looks dull and gloomy even now when the world is a riot of autumn color. Little Elizabeth is doing too much listening to lost whispers. I think one of my missions in Summerside will be to teach her how to laugh. (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
I wended my way to the graveyard this evening," wrote Anne to Gilbert after she got home. "I think 'wend your way' is a lovely phrase and I work it in whenever I can. It sounds funny to say I enjoyed my stroll in the graveyard but I really did. Miss Courtaloe's stories were so funny. Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other... just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you... and I think death would show it to them. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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 have them, is it? View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it? (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
ALL things great are wound up with all things little. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out. View quote
Lucy Maud Montgomery