‘Anne of Green Gables’ is a famous novel by Lucy Mod Montgomery written and published in 1908.
These Anne of Green Gables quotes show her growth as she makes her way within a new family, town, and life in general. It has been considered a classic children’s novel since the mid-twentieth century but was written for all ages.
Montgomery was inspired by the real-life story of Evelyn Nesbitt who was an orphan and mistakenly sent two siblings who wanted a boy to work on their farm but got a daughter. Lucy decides to spread this idea in her fiction.
The novel records the emotional growth of a protagonist named Anne Shirley and it is her maturity that allows her to give up her scholarship to stay at home and eventually lean towards her guardian Marila Kubert. It has multiple characters and in the book, it carries a different kind of spirit. It eventually became one of the best series of books. It has also been converted to a Netflix series. The novel is filled with quotes relevant to life. Here is a list of some of the best.’ is a famous novel by Lucy Mod Montgomery written and published in 1908.
These Anne of Green Gables show his growth as he makes his way into a new family, city, and ordinary life. It has been considered a classic children’s novel since the mid-twentieth century but was written for all ages.
Montgomery was inspired by the real-life story of Evelyn Nesbitt who was an orphan and mistakenly sent two siblings who wanted a boy to work on their farm but got a daughter. Lucy decides to spread this idea in her fiction.
The novel records the emotional growth of a protagonist named Anne Shirley and it is her maturity that allows her to give up her scholarship to stay at home and eventually lean towards her guardian Marila Kubert. It has multiple characters and in the book, it carries a different kind of spirit. It eventually became one of the best series of books. It has also been converted to a Netflix series. The novel is filled with quotes relevant to life. Here is a list of some of the best.
Anne of Green Gables Quotes
1. “It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.” ― L. M. Montgomery
2. “But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an ‘e’.” ― L.M. Montgomery
3. “The world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure, doesn’t it? Those trees look as if I could blow them away with a breath–pouf! I’m so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren’t you?” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
4. “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.”
5. “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
6. “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.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
7. “Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it…well with no mistakes in it yet.” ― Ms. Stacy
8. “All the Beyond was hers with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years–each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immoral chaplet.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
9. “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.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery
10. “Anne has as many shades as a rainbow and every shade is the prettiest while it lasts.”
11. “But you have such dimples,” said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. “Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true, but so many of my dreams have that I mustn’t complain. Am I all ready now?”
― L.M. Montgomery
12. “Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?”
― L.M. Montgomery
13. “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.”
14. “It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?”
― L.M. Montgomery
15. “Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery
16. “True friends are always together in spirit.”
― L.M. Montgomery
17. “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
18. “When I left Queen’s my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along with 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.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery
19. “That night Anne knelt sweetly by her open window in a great sheen of moonshine and murmured a prayer of gratitude and aspiration that came straight from her heart. There was in it thankfulness for the past and reverent petition for the future, and when she slept on her white pillow her dreams were as fair and bright and beautiful as maidenhood might desire.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery
20. “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.”
21. “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.”
― L.M. Montgomery
22. “Kindred spirits are not as scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery
23. “Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I’d just feel a prayer.”
― L.M. Montgomery
24. “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
25. “It almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.”
26. “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.”
27. “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
28. “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
― L.M. Montgomery
29. “It was November–the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, and passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.”
― L. M. Montgomery
30. “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 as scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery
31. “One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window. She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.”
― L.M. Montgomery
32. “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?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn’t talk? If you say so I’ll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it’s difficult.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery
33. “Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
― L.M. Montgomery
34. “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
35. “Oh, look, and here a big bee just tumbled out of apple blossom. Just think what a lovely place to live–in an apple blossom! Fancy going to sleep in it when the wind was rocking it. If I wasn’t a human girl, I think I’d like to be a bee and live among the flowers.”
36. “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
37. “Oh, it’s delightful to have ambitions. I’m so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them– that’s the best of it. Just as soon as you attain one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery
38. “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
39. “I had made up my mind that if you didn’t come for me tonight I’d go down the track to that big wild cherry tree at the bend, and climb up into it to stay all night. I wouldn’t be a bit afraid, and it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don’t you think? You could imagine you were dwelling in marble halls, couldn’t you?”
40. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery
41. “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.”
― L.M. Montgomery
42. “The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?”
― L.M. Montgomery
43. “I can’t. I’m in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”
44. “I can’t cheer up — I don’t want to cheer up. It’s nicer to be miserable!”
45. “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.”
― L.M. Montgomery
46. “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.”
― L.M. Montgomery
47. “Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery
48. “Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it… yet.”
― L.M. Montgomery
49. “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
50. “Anne watched them as she talked and somehow felt that wind and stars and fireflies were all tangled up together into something unutterably sweet and enchanting.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery
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