Life Quotes by L.M. Montgomery

“There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“She felt a wonderful lightness of spirit, a soul-stirring joy in mere existence.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“A certain door of life was shut behind her and could not be re-opened.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them,…

— L.M. Montgomery

“The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty, Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Sure and ye’ve only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne?”

— L.M. Montgomery

“But play the game of life according to the rules.  You might as well, because you can't cheat life in the end.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Well, that was life. Gladness and pain... hope and fear... and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Perhaps it was nothing very dreadful after all. I think the little things in life often make more trouble than the big…

— L.M. Montgomery

“People who haven't natural gumption never learn," retorted Aunt Jamesina, "neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred…

— L.M. Montgomery

“But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it? It was the old diamond disillusion of childhood…

— L.M. Montgomery

“I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate," he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. "I…

— L.M. Montgomery

“There was another occupant of the living-room, curled up on a couch, who must not be overlooked, since he was a creature…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed,"…

— L.M. Montgomery

“I came to the conclusion, Marilla, that I wasn't born for city life and that I was glad of it. It's nice…

— L.M. Montgomery

“I hate to go mincing through life, afraid to take a single long step for fear somebody is watching. I want to…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Gilbert had finally made up his mind that he was going to be a doctor. "It's a splendid profession," he said enthusiastically.…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Really, Nan could be very odious when she liked. Yet somehow she [Gay] didn't hate her as before. She felt very indifferent…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables”

— L.M. Montgomery

“At life's banquet of success I may not be the guest of honor, but I'll be among those present.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Life is only beginning for you now . . . since at last you're quite free and independent. And you never know…

— L.M. Montgomery

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.' That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it…

— L.M. Montgomery

“There are some people to whom life will never be anything more than a kitchen garden; and there are others to whom…

— L.M. Montgomery

“An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Leslie, after her first anguish was over, found it possible to go on with life after all, as most of us do,…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Well, that was life. Gladness and pain...hope and fear...and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to let the…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with … making it stand in people's thoughts…

— L.M. Montgomery

“One of the reviews says the book "radiates happiness and optimism". When I think of the conditions of worry and gloom and…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me glad to be…

— L.M. Montgomery