Anne of Green Gables Quotes

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– Anne of Green Gables Quotes –

Anne of green gables quotes is coined from a novel, following the adventures of Anne Shirley, an orphan girl who grows up to adulthood. The novel is fictional, and its focus is on Anne as she navigates life with the Cuthbert siblings, classmates, and locals.

Anne of Green Gables Quotes

Read these Anne of green gables quotes to learn from the novel.

1. “Which would you rather be if you had the choice–divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”

2. “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?”

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

4. “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.”

5. “All the Beyond was hers with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years—each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.”

6. “You have a life of such joy before you. Not without hardship. Not without bumps in the road. Be safe with those you trust. But when you do find people to trust, the bond will be that much greater.” — Aunt Josephine “Anne of Green Gables Quotes”

7. “We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.”

8. “I reckon every new idea was modern once, until it wasn’t.” — Matthew Cuthbert

9. “Anne has as many shades as a rainbow and every shade is the prettiest while it lasts. “

10. “I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.”

11. “All things great are wound up with all things little.”

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12.”For 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.”

13. “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.”

14. “I can’t cheer up — I don’t want to cheer up. It’s nicer to be miserable!”

15Imagination is what you need.”

16. “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” “Anne of Green Gables Quotes”

17. “Nightmares aren’t so scary without the protection of the dark.” — Anne Shirley

18. “Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.”

19. “How are you going to find out about things if you don’t ask questions?”

20. “Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it … well, with no mistakes in it yet.”

21. “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.”

22. “Don’t give up all your romance Anne, a little of it is a good thing – not too much of course-but keep a little of it.”

23. God’s in His heaven, alls right with the world’, whispered Anne softly.”

24. “Don’t you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”

Marilla Cuthbert

25. “There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world.”

26. “Sound journalism must defend the voiceless, not send them further into silence.” — Miss Stacy

27. “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.”

28. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.”

29. “It’s not what the world holds for you, it’s what you bring to it.” — Anne Shirley

30.”I’ve just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”

31. “It’s lovely to be going home and know it’s home.”

32.”There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn’t be half so interesting.”

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33. “I can’t. I’m in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”

34. “Red hair is my lifelong sorrow.”

35.”What a splendid day! 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…they may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.” “Anne of Green Gables Quotes”

36. “It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?”

37. “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.”

38. “…because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something  worthwhile.”

39. “It’s a perfect day for a tragical romance!” — Anne Shirley

40. “That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.”

41. “But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”

42.”It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?”

43. “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.”

44. “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.”

45. “It’s a powerful thing to have done someone wrong when you truly didn’t intend it.” — Marilla Cuthbert “Anne of Green Gables Quotes”

46. “We ought always to try to influence other people for good.”

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47. “You can’t know joy unless you’ve known sorrow. Those of us who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths.” — Miss Stacy

48. “The best part of knowing the rules is finding acceptable ways of breaking them.” — Winifred Rose

49.”There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it’s so hard to keep from loving things, isn’t it?”

50. “Which would you rather be if you had the choice — divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”

51. Trouble in making myself love them.”

52. “Don’t you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”

53.”I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend.” “Anne of Green Gables Quotes”

54.”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?”

55. “Life had so many colors through her eyes. It painted my world forever.” — Anne Shirley

56. “Love is not quantifiable, and therefore not finite.” — Miss Stacy

57. “Oh, to say the least, it’s complicated. And if a mind’s abuzz with pressure and deadlines and ‘what if this and that,’ I imagine love’s truth would be a near-impossible thing to feel. I wonder if, when all’s quiet in your mind, you’ll find your answer.” — Aunt Josephine

58. “She thought in exclamation points.” “Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I remember. Involve me, and I learn.” — Anne Shirley

59. “It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?”

Anne Shirley

60. “I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”

61. “Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”

62. “I’m unusual, and I embrace it.” — Anne Shirley

63. “Sometimes life hides gifts in the darkest of places.” — Anne Shirley

64. “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?”

65. “The trouble with him seems to be that he hasn’t enough imagination.”

66. “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” “Anne of Green Gables Quotes”

67. “I wouldn’t want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I’d like it if he could be wicked and wouldn’t.”

68. “Dreamers change the world.” — Anne Shirley

69. “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.”

Dialogue Quotes

70.”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.”

71.”Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

72. “That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”

73. “You know, it seems to be you should decide for yourself what you want to do, and be, and set your mind to it. You’ve got a good and nimble mind, Anne, I don’t see why you should limit it. In my day, we didn’t get to choose. I think you should make your own decision.” — Marilla Cuthbert

74. “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.”

75.”There was in it thankfulness for the past and reverent petition for the future; and when she slept on her white pillow her dreams were as fair and bright and beautiful as maidenhood might desire.” “Anne of Green Gables Quotes”

76. “She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend — as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.”

77. “Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,’ she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. ‘What nice dreams they must have!”

More Anne of Green Gables Quotes 

78. “You’re never safe from being surprised until you’re dead.”

79. “I think broken things have such a sad beauty.” — Anne Shirley

80. “That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”

81. “It’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?”

82. “I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”

83. The world looks like something God had imagined for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?

84. “Well, that is another hope gone. ‘My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.’  That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.” “Anne of Green Gables Quotes”

85. “Miss Barry was a kindred spirit after all,” Anne confided to Marilla, “You wouldn’t think so to look at her, but she is . . .  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.”

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