Anne Of Green Gables Quotes

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Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L.M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children’s novel since the mid-twentieth century. Here are some quotes;

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“The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”
“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.”
“I’m not a bit changed — not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME — back here — is just the same.”
“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth.”
“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”
“It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?”
“That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”
“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.”
“You’re never safe from being surprised until you’re dead.”
“Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it … well, with no mistakes in it yet.”
“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.”
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

“She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend — as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.”
“Oh, but there’s such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,’ wailed Anne. ‘You may know a thing is so, but you can’t help hoping other people don’t quite think it is.”
“But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”
“Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,’ she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. ‘What nice dreams they must have!”
“Look at that sea, girls — all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
“Miss Barry was a kindred spirit after all,” Anne confided to Marilla, “You wouldn’t think so to look at her, but she is . . . 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.”
God’s in His heaven, alls right with the world’, whispered Anne softly.”
“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?”
“Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.”
“I’ve done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by ‘the joy of strife’. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
“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?”
“I can’t. I’m in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”
“I don’t know, I don’t want to talk as much… It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures. I don’t like to have them laughed at or wondered over.”
“Anne’s beauty-loving eyes lingered on it all, taking everything greedily in. She had looked on so many unlovely places in her life, poor child; but this was as lovely as anything she had ever dreamed.”
“Well, that is another hope gone. ‘My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.’ That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.”
“There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I’m such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn’t be half so interesting.”
“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”
“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.”
“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it… Yet.”
“When I left Queen’s my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the best does.”
“But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”
“That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
“Don’t you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
“Look at that sea, girls–all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
“Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,’ she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. ‘What nice dreams they must have!”

Anne Of Green Gables Quotes About Love

“Look at that sea, girls–all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness anymore if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“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, Anne of Green Gables
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Red hair is my lifelong sorrow.” ―L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“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?” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“I’ve done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by ‘the joy of strife’.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“I can’t cheer up — I don’t want to cheer up. It’s nicer to be miserable!” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“I don’t know. I don’t want to talk as much. It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures. I don’t like to have them laughed at or wondered over.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables27. “Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I’ve just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all, and that I was to stay here forever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.” ―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.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet,” scoffed Marilla. “You’ll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste time that should be put to your lessons. Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.” ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“The trouble with him seems to be that he hasn’t enough imagination.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Don’t you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“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, Anne of Green Gables
“You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it… Yet.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Anne has as many shades as a rainbow and every shade is the prettiest while it lasts.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“It’s lovely to be going home and know it’s home. I love green gables already, and I’ve never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I’m so happy.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“If I was wicked I meant to be wicked to some purpose.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“True friends are always together in spirit.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“We ought always to try to influence others for good.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Anne Of Green Gables Quotes Bosom Friends

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
“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.”
“True friends are always together in spirit.”
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”
“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”

“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it… yet.”
“It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.”
“It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?”
“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
“The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”
“But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an ‘e’.”
“I’m not a bit changed–not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME–back here–is just the same.”
“I felt that [Matthew] was a kindred spirit as soon as I ever saw him.”
“If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us, don’t you think?”
“Best friends can turn a horrible day, into one of the best days of your life.”

Anne Of Green Gables Quotes Tomorrow Is A New Day

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
“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.”
“True friends are always together in spirit.”
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”
“I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”
“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
“You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.”
“I don’t want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.”

“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it… yet.”
“And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”
“Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.”
“I’ve done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by ‘the joy of strife’. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
“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?”
“I can’t. I’m in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”
“I don’t know, I don’t want to talk as much… It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures. I don’t like to have them laughed at or wondered over.”
“Anne’s beauty-loving eyes lingered on it all, taking everything greedily in. She had looked on so many unlovely places in her life, poor child; but this was as lovely as anything she had ever dreamed.”
“Well, that is another hope gone. ‘My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.’ That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.”
“There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I’m such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn’t be half so interesting.”
“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”
“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.”
“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it… Yet.”
“But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”
“That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
“Don’t you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
“Look at that sea, girls–all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
“Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,’ she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. ‘What nice dreams they must have!”
“It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.”

Anne Of Green Gables Quotes Friendship

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
“True friends are always together in spirit.”
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”
“Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”
“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it… yet.”
“It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.”
“It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?”
“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
“But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an ‘e’.”
“I’m not a bit changed–not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME–back here–is just the same.”
“That is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs.”

“Well, one can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.”
“Perhaps… perhaps… love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”
″‘But I’d rather look like you than be pretty,’ she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.”
″‘Having adventures comes natural to some people’, said Anne serenely. ‘You just have a gift for them or you haven’t.‘”
″… I’m so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.”
“It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?”
“It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures. I don’t like to have them laughed at or wondered over.”
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet.”
“I’ve done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by ‘the joy of strife’. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
“I’m not a bit changed–not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real me–back here–is just the same.”
″‘I think,’ concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, ‘that we always love best the people who need us.‘”
“It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.”
“Which would you rather be if you had the choice–divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”
“You’d find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair… People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.”
“It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?”
“Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?”
“But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”
“I know it is just plain red, and it breaks my heart. It will be my life long sorrow.”
“Don’t you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”
“True friends are always together in spirit.”
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”
“…because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”

Anne Of Green Gables Quotes Kindred Spirits

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
“But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an ‘e’.”
“I’m not a bit changed–not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real me–back here–is just the same.
“It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?”
“It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.”
“Which would you rather be if you had the choice–divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”
“You’d find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair… People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.”
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet.”
“It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?”
“It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures. I don’t like to have them laughed at or wondered over.”
“I’ve done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by ‘the joy of strife’. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
“I know it is just plain red, and it breaks my heart. It will be my life long sorrow.”
“But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”
“All things great are wound up with all things little.”
“Don’t you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
“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.”
“True friends are always together in spirit.”
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”
“…because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.”

Anne Of Green Gables Wedding Quotes

“It’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?”
“There isn’t any such thing as an ordinary life.”
“You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.”
“Don’t try to write anything you can’t feel – it will be a failure – ‘echoes nothing worth”
“Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it…well with no mistakes in it yet.”
“It’s not what the world holds for you, it’s what you bring to it.”
“The possibilities of making new friends help to make life very fascinating”
“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.”

“The page of girlhood had been turned, as by an unseen finger, and the page of womanhood was before her with all its charm and mystery, its pain and gladness.”
“It is never pleasant to have our old shrines desecrated, even when we have outgrown them.”
“My library isn’t very extensive but every book in it is a friend.”
“Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.”
“It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.”
“Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?”
“Don’t try to write anything you can’t feel – it will be a failure – ‘echoes nothing worth”
“You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.”
“There isn’t any such thing as an ordinary life.”
“I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I’m sure they would be very beautiful.”
“there’s no use trying to live in other people’s opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.”
“Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.”