Lucy Maud Montgomery People Quotations

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.

Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.

Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills the off to get rid of them." -Anne Shirley

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

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

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.

People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

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.

The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up ...

most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

... we always love best the people who need us.

Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

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

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.

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

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?

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.