“Anne of Green Gables” quotes

“- Gilbert Blythe: Well, I figured you can give me a hand with my work, and we'll call it a fair exchange.
- Anne Shirley: Aren't you worried? I'm liable to break another slate over your head.
- Gilbert Blythe: I'm more worried I might break one over yours, carrots.”
Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert

“Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can't make up for the lack of it.”
Charmion King - Aunt Josephine

“My current wine is famous all over the island, Rachel Lynde, as you very well know. And the Reverend Allen himself is not opposed to taking a bit when he comes calling. And as for Christian virtue: making a little wine for a refreshment is far less sinful than meddling in other people's affairs!”
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“The fact that you rescued me, unnecessarily, hardly wipes out past wrongs.”

Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert

“If she can avoid catastrophe two days in a row, I might have a chance to make up my mind.”

Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“The truth will set you free.”
Marilyn Lightstone - Miss Muriel Stacy

“Wealth can be very empty when you don't have someone to share it with. But by the time I realized that, no one would have me except men who wanted my money more than I did.”
Charmion King - Aunt Josephine

“I promise I'll never do it again. That's the one good thing about me. I never do the same wrong thing twice.”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert

“You amuse me and precious little amuses me in this world at my age.”

Charmion King - Aunt Josephine

“I've never belonged to anyone!”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert

“- Anne Shirley: Oh, Marilla, you look so elegant!
- Marilla Cuthbert: You don't make important visits in kitchen clothes.”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“How would you like to have nasty things said about you? How would you like to hear that you're fat, ugly, and a sour old gossip!”

Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert

“I like people who make me like them. Saves me so much trouble forcing myself to like them.”
Charmion King - Aunt Josephine

“- Anne Shirley: Don't you ever imagine things differently from what they are?
- Marilla Cuthbert: No.
- Anne Shirley: Oh Marilla, how much you miss.”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“- Matthew Cuthbert: I've worked hard all my life. I'd rather just drop in the harness. I got old; I never noticed.
- Anne Shirley: If I'd been the boy you sent for, I could have spared you in so many ways.
- Matthew Cuthbert: I never wanted a boy. I only wanted you from the first day. Don't ever change. I love my little girl. I'm so proud of my...” (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Farnsworth - Matthew Cuthbert
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert

“Her tongue appears to be hinged in the middle, but she may turn out all right.”

Patricia Hamilton - Rachel Lynde