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Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1) QUOTES

Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1) QUOTES

1 " Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)

2 " Desire grows by what it feeds on. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)

3 " Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)

4 " She had a way of embroidering life with stars. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)

5 " Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)

6 " He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use in marking the place and coming back to it at a more convenient season, because it will not be there then. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)

7 " I had always disliked men. It must have been born in me, because, as far back as I can remember, an antipathy to men and dogs was one of my strongest characteristics. I was noted for that. My experiences through life only served to deepen it. The more I saw of men, the more I liked cats. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)

8 " Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)

9 " There are some people to whom life will never be anything more than a kitchen garden; and there are others to whom it will always be a royal palace with domes and minarets of rainbow fancy. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)

10 " Oh, daddy, by what witchcraft have you coaxed that sulky rose-bush into bloom?'

'No witchcraft at all - it just bloomed because you were coming home, baby,' said her father. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)

11 " I CAN help people—I've learned that money isn't the only power for helping people. Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)

12 " Mr. Leonard thought rightly that the highest work to which any man could be called was a life of service to his fellows; but he made the mistake of supposing the field of service much narrower than it is—of failing to see that a man may minister to the needs of humanity in many different but equally effective ways. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)

13 " And the awful joy of dreaming that he was young again, with unspoiled life before him, was so great and compelling that it counterbalanced the agony in the realization of a dishonoured old age, following years in which he had squandered the wealth of his soul in ways where Wisdom lifted not her voice. "

― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)