Quote

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Age: 67 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1942
Died: April 24
Author
Biographer
Diarist
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
New London
Prince Edward Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald
Cheer
Miserable
Nicer

More quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Image
But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow good advice is apt to be, I think.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
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.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
All things great are wound up with all things little.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea, said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
Lucy Maud Montgomery