The best Anne of Green Gables quotes

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

- Anne Shirley

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

- Anne Shirley

I think you’d better learn to control that imagination of yours, Anne, if you can’t distinguish between what is real and what isn’t.

- Marilla [Chapter six]

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 immoral chaplet.

- Narrator

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.

- Narrator

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

I’ve done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by ‘the joy of strife’. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

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 Shirley

If I wasn’t a human girl, I think I’d like to be a bee and live among the flowers.

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

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.