I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

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.