Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotations by Author
- Read the works of L. M. Montgomery online at The Literature Page
- 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.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just FEEL a prayer.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- If the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- 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.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- 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?
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- It's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them—that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- 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.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Browse our complete list of 3443 authors by last name:
|
|
![[info]](/icon_info.gif){kind=icon}
![[add]](/icon_plus.gif){kind=icon}
![[mail]](/icon_email.gif){kind=icon}
![[note]](/icon_note.gif){kind=icon}