Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Maples are such sociable trees They're always rustling and whispering to you.

To love is easy and therefore common but to understand how rare it is!

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.

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

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.

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.

I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble.

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

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.

She had a way of embroidering life with stars.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life.

If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

All things great are wound up with all things little.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

she had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

I am simply a book drunkard.

We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.

The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.

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

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.