Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian educator and author, best known for creating the beloved "Anne of Green Gables" series. Her novels have inspired generations of readers and contributed greatly to Canadian literature. She continues to be celebrated for her vivid storytelling and lasting influence on children's literature. Here are 60 of her quotes:

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

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

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

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

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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

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

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

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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

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.

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

ALL things great are wound up with all things little.

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