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
All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
I am simply a book drunkard.
I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.
Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.
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.
My pen shall heal, not hurt.
Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.