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
Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.
I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.
Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.
Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
... we always love best the people who need us.
No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.
Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.
Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.