Just as in life, funny things happened in Avonlea. Here are some lines I found amusing.
Mrs. Lawson-"What is an octaganarian, anyway?"
Mrs. Potts-"I don't know but they must be awfully sickly creatures because you never hear about one of them but that they're dead."
Hetty-"I've been to Teacher's College, Janet Ward."
Janet-"And I've given birth to three bright children, Hetty King."
Hetty-"Cows and sows give birth, as well, but that doesn't qualify them for Teacher's College."
From "The Witch of Avonlea."
"Meet my sister, or should I say my peerless flower, Felicity." Felix to Gus.
"Kissed my dog, when I had one." Gus to Felicity.
"Oh, never mind, Janet dear. Cousin Myrtle's husband left her, too, and she's never had a sulky fit since." Great Aunt Eliza to Janet.
"Better'n kissin' my dog." Gus to Felicity after their first kiss.
From "How Kissing Was Discovered."
Rachel-"Thomas and I always made it a point to settle our differences before going to bed at night."
Hetty-"Poor man must have died from lack of sleep."
From "Old Quarrels, Old Love."
"I'd like to fly and spit diamonds, but that don't make it so." Gus to Arthur arguing about Felicity in "
"She could talk the hind leg off a mule. Wouldn't that be a blessed change around here." Marilla to a silent Matthew about keeping Anne.
Anne-"Wilt thou give me a lock of thy jet black tresses?" Diana-"But I don't have any black dresses."
"It was a romantic way to perish-for a mouse." Anne confessing about a mouse drowning in the pudding sauce.
The entire scene when Matthew buys Anne the dress with puffed sleeves.
"At my age imagination is a threat to life." Aunt Jo to Anne.
From "Anne of Green Gables."
"Aunt Olivia and Jasper are too ancient to get married. They're almost as old as you and Father." Felix to Janet.
"What can you expect from cold soup warmed over?" Hetty talking about Jasper.
From "May the Best Man Win."
"Look at that. She's doin' a play." Gus when Hetty gets on a cart to speak to the cannery workers.
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"Do your duty as a gentleman and a Presbyterian." Hetty to Angus MacCorkendale trying to get him to allow his workers to go to school. Hetty introduces Gus to the class and mentions he is late. Gus-"Run my guts out." Hetty-"A person's guts do not run, Gus." |
"This here fiddle goes where I go, even to the outhouse." Gus to Hetty when she asks why he brought it.
Hetty-"Do you ever wash those clothes?" Gus-"Every Christmas. Regular like clockwork."
"Figure you'll learn me readin' this mornin', writin' by quittin' time." Gus to Hetty about school.
From "Aunt Hetty's Ordeal"
