Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.
L.M. MontgomeryI know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
L.M. MontgomeryI don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
L.M. MontgomeryStichwörter: proposal ask marrying
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
L.M. MontgomeryStichwörter: writing worth feel
No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.
L.M. MontgomeryIf the bards of old the true has told
The sirens have raven hair.
But over the earth since art had birth,
They paint the angels fair.
...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”...
L.M. MontgomeryStichwörter: disappointment expectations
It would be so much easier to be good if one’s hair was handsome auburn, don’t you think?
L.M. MontgomeryStichwörter: being-good
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.
L.M. MontgomeryStichwörter: the-blue-castle
I think it's something like Mr. Peter Sloane and the octogenarians. The other evening Mrs. Sloane was reading a newspaper ans she said to Mr. Sloane 'I see here that another octogenarian has just died. What is an Octogenarian, Peter?' And Mr. Sloane said he didn't know, but they must be very sickly creatures, for you never heard tell of them but they were dying.
L.M. MontgomeryStichwörter: funny dying anecdote octogenarian
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