Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

I always took things very seriously. Always have done.

I've got a serious-looking head.

We are not here to laugh.

I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.

I do have this reputation for being a serious person.

I tend to deal with things in a very serious manner.

You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

I'm too cynical to be an optimist.

Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.

I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

I don't want to get depressed, I don't want to get down in the dumps, and I don't want to get teased with the idea that everything's rigged and everything's fake.

Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.

A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.

I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine. What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine.

I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.

Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism.

I don't do things that are comedic. This is such a crazy idea.

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.

The righteous one has no sense of humor.