Anne Of Green Gables Quotes

“Battered but Not Broken”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“It isn’t the dead folks who have made the fuss over this—it’s the living folks.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“And as for his personal qualities, I’m sure human eulogy couldn’t go further. I wonder if they told him he was all those best things while he was alive.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“It doesn’t matter if a man does use bad grammar so long as he is a good provider and doesn’t go poking round the pantry to see how much sugar you’ve used in a week.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“I don’t mind the world or the devil much, but the flesh DOES rather bother me,”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“You”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“she left her sentence for the future years to finish.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“I’ll be as secret as the dead,”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“having cried my cry and said my say I shall take a brace, and if I cannot look pleasant I will look as pleasant as I can.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“I’m afraid sometimes to sit down for fear I’ll never be able to git up again.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“You know exactly how narrow their outlook on life is, excellent creatures though they are.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us,”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“One spurt of courage isn’t enough for a lifetime.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“Do you think a war for which Germany has been preparing for twenty years will be over in a few weeks?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“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.” “I think you’re fulfilling that ambition every day,” said Gilbert admiringly. And he was right. Anne was one of the children of light by birthright. After she had passed through a life with a smile or a word thrown across it like a gleam of sunshine the owner of that life saw it, for the time being at least, as hopeful and lovely and of good report.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“Full-fledged B.A.’s”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“Rhoda”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“me again. I had seen the real Jonas. I wondered if he could ever”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“Oh God, our help in ages past Our hope for years to come. Our shelter from the stormy blast And our eternal home.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“Comes he slow or comes he fast It is but death who comes at last.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“strychnine”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set

“Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope. Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables: Complete 8-Book Box Set