Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes - Page 2

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

I am simply a book drunkard.

You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.

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.

It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain - amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through.

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.

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.

True friends are always together in spirit.

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

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble.

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

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

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.