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Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel Quotes

Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel ended its run in 1970.

It features Kevin Sullivan as producer, and Hagood Hardy as theme composer. Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel is created by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel is recorded in English and originally aired in Canada. Each episode of Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel is 230 minutes (approx.) long. Spinoffs for this show include Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story.

The cast includes: Jonathan Crombie as Gilbert Blythe, Megan Follows as Anne Shirley, Schuyler Grant as Diana Barry, Colleen Dewhurst as Marilla Cuthbert, Patricia Hamilton as Rachel Lynde, Wendy Hiller as Mrs. Harris, Kate Lynch as Pauline Harris, Frank Converse as Morgan Harris, Rosemary Dunsmore as Katherine Brooke, Dave Foley as Lewis Allen, and Susannah Hoffman as Jen Pringle.

Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel Quotes

Jonathan Crombie as Gilbert Blythe

  • (Jonathan Crombie) "All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness."
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "Listen, I'm sorry. What else can I do?"
  • (Megan Follows) "Let me get a word in edgewise once in a while, before I pitch you."
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "What are you thinking?"
  • (Megan Follows) "I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish -- like a broken silence."
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "Don't get up on your high horse with me, Anne Shirley."
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "Maybe if you just let your character speak everyday English, instead of all that highfaluting mumbo jumbo."
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "Anne, There's not going to be any wedding anymore."
  • (Megan Follows) "You're gonna get well, Gil. I know you are."
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "I called it off. It wouldn't be fair to Christine. There would never be anyone for me but you."
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "It'll be three years before I finish medical school. Even then there won't be any diamond sunbursts or marble halls."
  • (Megan Follows) "I don't want diamond sunbursts, or marble halls. I just want you."
  • (Jonathan Crombie) ""Wilt thou give up thy garter, oh fairest of the fair"? Anne, nobody speaks that way. And look at that sap Percival who sits around mooning the entire time. He never lets a girl get a word in edgewise. In real life she'd have pitched him."
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "Well, the elegant and illustrious Miss Shirley. Relaxed while seeking out ideas for her next Rollings Reliable writing assignment, I presume."

Schuyler Grant as Diana Barry

  • (Schuyler Grant) "You always have to be the center of attention whenever Gilbert Blythe is in anyone's company."
  • (Schuyler Grant) "Oh, I'm so nervous. I know I'm going to faint, Aunt Jo."
  • (Unnamed) "Well, if you do, I'll drag you down to the rainwater hog shed and drop you in."
  • (Schuyler Grant) "Myra Gillis had 37 doilies when she got married, and I'm determined to have AT LEAST as many as she had."
  • (Megan Follows) "I suppose it would be impossible to keep house with only 36 doilies. But I assure you, Mr. Wright, Diana will be the sweetest little homemaker in the world -- so long as you can afford to let her keep up with the Gillises."

Megan Follows as Anne Shirley

  • (Megan Follows) "I don't want any of it to change. I wish I could just hold on to those days forever. I have a feeling things will never be the same again, will they?"
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "I won't change, that's the least I can promise you."
  • (Megan Follows) "Good grief, you sure know how to try one's patience."
  • (Megan Follows) "You just think that you love me."
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "Anne, I've loved you as long as I can remember. I need you."
  • (Megan Follows) "I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it."
  • (Megan Follows) "My book. It's the book I published."
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "Well, don't sit there shaking like a leaf open it."
  • (Megan Follows) "How do you do, Mrs. Harris?"
  • (Wendy Hiller) "Far from well."
  • (Megan Follows) "Last one to the bridge is a stuffed goose."
  • (Megan Follows) "This has taught me a lesson not to stake my word of honor on cows."
  • (Megan Follows) "Plum puffs won't minister to a mind diseased in a world that's crumbled into pieces."
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "Well I'm glad to see that your dented spirits haven't injured your tongue."
  • (Megan Follows) "I promise I'll always be here if you need me. Good friend are always together in spirit. Let's not change Gil, let's just go on being good friends."
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "Friends, huh? I thought we were kindred spirits."
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "Please say yes."
  • (Megan Follows) "I can't. Gil, I'm so desperately sorry."
  • (Megan Follows) "Of all the stupid, sentimental thinks for Diana to do."
  • (Megan Follows) "Tell me, Mr. Allen, do you dance as well as you boast?"
  • (Dave Foley) "Better."
  • (Megan Follows) "Good morning, Mrs. Harris."
  • (Wendy Hiller) "Walking as if we owned the world, are we?"
  • (Megan Follows) "So I do."
  • (Megan Follows) "I feel as though someone's handed me the moon -- and I don't exactly know what to do with it."
  • (Megan Follows) "There's a book of revelations in everyone's life."
  • (Megan Follows) "It hasn't happened yet, you fool, and don't you dare tell anyone."
  • (Megan Follows) "Fred is -- extremely good."
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "That is exactly what he should be. Would you want to marry a wicked man?"
  • (Megan Follows) "Well, I wouldn't marry anyone who was really wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't."
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "You'll have better sense some day, I hope."
  • (Megan Follows) "You say you like people to be frank, we'll I'm going to be frank. It's your own fault that nobody likes you. Katherine Brooke, you are nothing but prickles and stings."
  • (Megan Follows) "Babies are never common. Each one is a miracle."
  • (Wendy Hiller) "Well I had two of them. I didn't see much that was miraculous about either of THEM."
  • (Megan Follows) "Why do people have to grow up and marry, change?"
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "Oh, you'd change. If someone ever admitted that they were head over heels for you, you'd be swept off your feet in a moment."
  • (Megan Follows) "I would not, and I defy anyone who would try and make me change."
  • (Jonathan Crombie) "Oh, you do?"
  • (Megan Follows) "Our friendship, it won't ever be the same now. Why can't he just be sensible instead of acting like a sentimental schoolboy?"
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "Because he loves you."
  • (Megan Follows) "He loves me? I can't know why."
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "Because you made Josie Pye and Ruby Gillis and all of those wishy-washy young ladies who waltzed by him look like spineless nothings."
  • (Megan Follows) "Marilla, he's hardly my idea of a romantic suitor."
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "Anne, you have tricked something out of that imagination of yours that you call romance. Have you forgotten how he gave up the Avonlea school for you so that you could stay here with me? He picked you up everyday in his carriage so that you could study your courses together. Don't toss it away for some ridiculous ideal that doesn't exist. Hmm? Now, you come downstairs and see if a good cup of tea and some of those plum puffs I made today don't hearten you."
  • (Megan Follows) "Can you just see the buttons popping off her corset."
  • (Megan Follows) "It's high time someone reminded her what a piano sounds like."
  • (Megan Follows) "It shouldn't be me."
  • (Megan Follows) "If Gil were to -- not knowing how I really care."
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "Oh, there, there."
  • (Megan Follows) "What would I do without him?"
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "We can't change what God wills."

Patricia Hamilton as Rachel Lynde

  • (Patricia Hamilton) "It's the overparticular ones that get left behind."
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "And it's the over-opinionated ones that end up unhappy and meaner than second skimmings."
  • (Patricia Hamilton) "Patience has ceased to be a virtue, I want this rumpus stopped right now."

Rosemary Dunsmore as Katherine Brooke

  • (Rosemary Dunsmore) "This is the first place I've ever been to that feels like a real home."
  • (Rosemary Dunsmore) "Hate has got to be a disease with me."
  • (Rosemary Dunsmore) "Now you can go through the motions of telling me how delighted you are and how I'll have a wonderful time."
  • (Megan Follows) "I AM delighted -- but as to a wonderful time -- that will depend entirely on YOU, Katherine."
  • (Rosemary Dunsmore) "Have you girls no propriety? This is not a Turkish bazaar."
  • (Rosemary Dunsmore) "What is to be the pill in all this jam, Miss Shirley?"

Wendy Hiller as Mrs. Harris

  • (Wendy Hiller) "Yes, he was the handsomest man in Kingsport. And he adored me. We consulted each other about absolutely everything. Mind you, we didn't always agree. No. He had his fits of temper. Oh, yes. And so did I."
  • (Wendy Hiller) "Do you know what he did when I bought a daycap he didn't like?"
  • (Megan Follows) "I can't imagine."
  • (Wendy Hiller) "He ate it. It gave him a terrible stomach pain. Yes, serves him right. He was so irked that I had neglected to consult him."
  • (Wendy Hiller) "How could he go away and leave me alone and crippled like this? Dying was the only thing that he ever dared to do without consulting me. Won't be long before we're together again. There's no one; no man like him. No. This is a degenerate age, Miss Shirley."
  • (Wendy Hiller) "My husband never ate anyone, dead or alive."
  • (Wendy Hiller) "What's the meaning of this outrage? I've had enough of your monkey shine."
  • (Wendy Hiller) "And if I'm not here when you come back just lay me out in my wedding dress and mind my hair is crimped."
  • (Wendy Hiller) "I don't eat my lunch outside. I'm not a raggle taggle gypsy. Take me in. Take me in."
  • (Megan Follows) "Hush, Mrs. Harris. Some of these girls are Pringles."
  • (Wendy Hiller) "Pringles?"
  • (Megan Follows) "Yes, and you don't want them running home and telling tales."
  • (Wendy Hiller) "You'll pay for this."
  • (Wendy Hiller) "Oh. Remember your manners. And don't forget to cross your ankles decently when you sit down. And don't sit in a draft, either. And don't slide down the banisters."
  • (Kate Lynch) "Mama."
  • (Wendy Hiller) "Well, you did at Nancy Pringle's wedding."
  • (Kate Lynch) "Mama, that was 25 years ago. What do you think I am ?"

Frank Converse as Morgan Harris

  • (Frank Converse) "Would you do me the honor, Miss Shirley, of reserving a waltz on your card?"
  • (Megan Follows) "Of course, Mr. Harris -- if I have a waltz free."
  • (Frank Converse) "I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry."

Colleen Dewhurst as Marilla Cuthbert

  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "You set your heart too much on frivolous things and then crash down into despair when you don't get them."
  • (Megan Follows) "I know. I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset -- almost pays for the thud."
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "Well, maybe it does. But I'd rather walk calmly along and do without flying AND thud."
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "Anne Shirley, I wouldn't trade you for a dozen boys."
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "Every baby is the sweetest and the best."
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "It's a wonder he got sick at all without asking her permission."
  • (Colleen Dewhurst) "Oh, you're a great one for secrets."

Susannah Hoffman as Jen Pringle

  • (Susannah Hoffman) "Oh, "telescope eyes" wouldn't know a Pringle if she were face to face with one."

Kate Lynch as Pauline Harris

  • (Kate Lynch) "Mama hates Isaac as much as she did 15 years ago when she set the bull terrier on him for coming around to see me."

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