Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
-
-
Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn’t it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
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 -
trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY -
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY