Lucy Quotes

"And 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?" ~ Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery "A little opposition gives spice to life." ~ Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery "But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do." ~ Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery The last day of the old year was one of those bright, cold, dazzling winter days, which bombard us with their brilliancy, and command our admiration but never our love. ~ Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. ~ Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery "I don't deny that an odd man here and there, if he's caught young and trained up proper, and if his mother has spanked him well beforehand, may turn out a decent being." ~ Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery "I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then." ~ Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery Human nature is not obliged to be consistent. ~ Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery "We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us." ~ Anne Of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery "We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great." ~ Anne Of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery