L. M. Montgomery (1874-1942)

Quotes

• There's really no fun in being sensible all the time....

• It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

• Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

• If we don't chase things--sometimes the things following us can catch up.

• 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?

• I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

• But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

• 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?

• There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

• It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

• Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

• When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.

• 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 into 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.

• Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

• When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.

• There's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it. You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.

• A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

• I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

• I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

• Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.