Lucy Maud Montgomery World Quotations

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send

Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.

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.

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.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.

That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.