Chronicles of Avonlea Quotes

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

“She had a way of embroidering life with stars.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

“Desire grows by what it feeds on.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

“He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use in marking the place and coming back to it at a more convenient season, because it will not be there then.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

“Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

“I had always disliked men. It must have been born in me, because, as far back as I can remember, an antipathy to men and dogs was one of my strongest characteristics. I was noted for that. My experiences through life only served to deepen it. The more I saw of men, the more I liked cats.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

“I CAN help people—I've learned that money isn't the only power for helping people. Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

“Oh, daddy, by what witchcraft have you coaxed that sulky rose-bush into bloom?'

'No witchcraft at all - it just bloomed because you were coming home, baby,' said her father.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

“Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.”
― L M Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

“Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

“Mr. Leonard thought rightly that the highest work to which any man could be called was a life of service to his fellows; but he made the mistake of supposing the field of service much narrower than it is—of failing to see that a man may minister to the needs of humanity in many different but equally effective ways.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

“And the awful joy of dreaming that he was young again, with unspoiled life before him, was so great and compelling that it counterbalanced the agony in the realization of a dishonoured old age, following years in which he had squandered the wealth of his soul in ways where Wisdom lifted not her voice.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea

“There are some people to whom life will never be anything more than a kitchen garden; and there are others to whom it will always be a royal palace with domes and minarets of rainbow fancy.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea