Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

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

Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?

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.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.