Anne of Green Gables Quotes

“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive — it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables + Anne of Avonlea + Anne of the Island: The 3 First Anne Shirley Classics Unabridged

“I’ve done my best and I begin to understand what is meant by the ‘joy of the strife.’ Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables

“Well now, I don’t know,” said Matthew, who being patient and wise and above all, hungry, had deemed it best to let Marilla talk her wrath out unhindered, having learned by experience that she got through with whatever work was on hand much quicker if not delayed by untimely argument.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables

“I can hear the brook laughing all the way up here. Have you ever noticed what cheerful things brooks are? They're always laughing.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“It's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“She didn't want her name written up, but it was a little humiliating to know that there was no danger of it”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“But I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I'll try to do and be anything you want me if you'll only keep me”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I know they meant to be just as good and kind as possible. And when people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams meant everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?"
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"You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair"
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“Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Bóg jest w niebie i świat jest piękny - szepnęła Ania cichutko.”
― Montgomery L M, Anne of Green Gables

“If you were out in a great big woods with other trees all around you and little mosses and Junebells growing over your roots and a brook not far away and birds singing in you branches, you could grow, couldn't you? But you can't where you are. I know just exactly how you feel, little trees.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I never in all my life saw or heard anything to equal her,” muttered Marilla, beating a retreat down to the cellar after potatoes. “She is kind of interesting as Matthew says. I can feel already that I’m wondering what on earth she’ll say next. She’ll be casting a spell over me, too. She’s cast it over Matthew. That look he gave me when he went out said everything he said or hinted last night over again. I wish he was like other men and would talk things out. A body could answer back then and argue him into reason. But what’s to be done with a man who just LOOKS?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables + Anne of Avonlea + Anne of the Island: The 3 First Anne Shirley Classics Unabridged