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Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books QUOTES

Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books QUOTES

41 " Leslie turned herself about passionately. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

42 " I don't think listening to Mr. Howard's arguments is likely to do me much harm. Mind you, I believe what I was brought up to believe. It saves a vast of bother—and back of it all, God is good. The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

43 " Oh, I wouldn't have minded its being heretical. I can stand wickedness, but I can't stand foolishness, "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

44 " The day never goes by for men and nations to make asses of themselves and take to the fists. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

45 " when the darkness is close to us it is a friend. But when we sorter push it away from us—divorce ourselves from it, so to speak, with lantern light—it becomes an enemy. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

46 " I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne—I'd give them a chance. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

47 " Ain't it strange how innocent little creatures like children like the blood-thirstiest stories? "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

48 " it has taught me a lesson not to give my word of honor about cows. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

49 " I'm just tired of everything . . . even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes . . . echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

50 " Better a dinner of herbs where your chums are than a stalled ox in a lonely boardinghouse. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

51 " 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? Then friendship would be the most beautiful thing in the world. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

52 " Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.' Isn't that worth learning, "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

53 " The folks who lived before me have done so much for me that I want to show my gratitude by doing something for the folks who will live after me. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

54 " There's one thing plain to be seen, Anne," said Marilla, "and that is that your fall off the Barry roof hasn't injured your tongue at all. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

55 " is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

56 " A seafaring uncle had given it to her mother who in turn had bequeathed it to Marilla. It was an old-fashioned oval, containing a braid of her mother's hair, surrounded by a border of very fine amethysts. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

57 " I never make the same mistake twice." "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones." "Oh, don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

58 " I have never liked cats," said Mrs. Gardner remotely. "I love them," said Dorothy. "They are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

59 " Diana couldn't be improved upon even by imagination. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books

60 " As Mrs. Lynde says, 'If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books