Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

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.

Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!

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?

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

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.