110+ Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes On Pei, Creative And Inspiring

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian educator and author best known for her novel Anne of Green Gables. She was born in 1874 in Prince Edward Island and began her teaching career at the age of 16. She wrote several novels and poems, and her works are still widely read today. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery on pei, creative, inspiring.

Top 10 Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

1. Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
2. In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
3. 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.
4. A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
5. 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.
6. If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery
7. That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
8. Anne Shirley. Anne with an "e.
9. Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
10. I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Quotes

• it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine
• Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
• As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
• Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.
• You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
• Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.
• She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
• Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.
• Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
• People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.

Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes About Inspiring

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things. — 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

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes About Twilight

When twilight drops her curtain downAnd pins it with a starRemember that you have a friendThough she may wander far. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes About Soul

It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets? — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes About Life

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert) — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time. — 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

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. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92) — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Oh, 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. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery Famous Quotes And Sayings

But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now? — Lucy Maud Montgomery

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't. — 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

A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion. — 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. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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? — Lucy Maud 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. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Why must people kneel down to pray? 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 in 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. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

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

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

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful. — 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

Why, I've never even had a quarrel with any one. I haven't an enemy. What a spineless thing I must be not to have even one enemy! — 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? — Lucy Maud Montgomery

There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage. — 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. — 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

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

Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them. — 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

For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU! — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit. — 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

True friends are always together in spirit. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is. — 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

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? — Lucy Maud Montgomery

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

You were never poor as long as you had something to love. — 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 comforting thought — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I don't know, 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. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change! — Lucy Maud Montgomery

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla? — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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. — 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

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? — 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

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

…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Life Lessons by Lucy Maud Montgomery

1. Lucy Maud Montgomery taught us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult it may seem. She worked hard and persevered despite the obstacles she faced in her life and career.
2. She also showed us the importance of staying true to ourselves and our values. She was a strong advocate for women's rights and the rights of all marginalized people.
3. Finally, she demonstrated the power of storytelling and literature to bring joy and understanding to people's lives. Her works have inspired generations of readers and continue to do so today.