Quotes of L. M. Montgomery - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful. ”

- L. M. 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. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it? ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ 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

“ But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure. ”

- L. M. 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. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ 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

“ 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

“ That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them. ”

- L. M. 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. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ Worrying helps you some—it seems as if you were doing something when you're worrying. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ But I'll have to ask you to wait a long time, Anne," said Gilbert sadly. "It will be three years before I'll finish my medical course. And even then there will be no diamond sunbursts and marble halls." Anne laughed. "I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. You see I'm quite as shameless as Phil about it. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more `scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now." Gilbert drew her close to him and kissed her. Then they walked home together in the dusk, crowned king and queen in the bridal realm of love, along winding paths fringed with the sweetest flowers that ever bloomed, and over haunted meadows where winds of hope and memory blew. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it. ”

- L. M. 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. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ If we don't chase things — sometimes the things following us can catch up. ”

- L. M. Montgomery
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