Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE, publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth30 November 1874
CountryCanada
Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes about
brains last, beauty doesn't.
of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest ...
Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.
Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.
It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.
No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?
When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
I am simply a book drunkard.
When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.