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
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.
Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…
But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I’m going out to collect it…
It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.
When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.
Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.
No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne)