Green Gables Quotes

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

No matter where I go or how I change, I'll always be your Anne. Anne of Green Gables.

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

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

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

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.

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

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.

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

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

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.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

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

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.

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

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne

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

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.

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

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?

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

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.

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.

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

When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

True friends are always together in spirit.

Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.