Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes


We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.


Citations

Montgomery, Lucy Maud. Anne of Green Gables. L.C. Page & Company, 1908, p. 361.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Born: November 30, 1874
  • Died: April 24, 1942
  • Nationality: Canadian
  • Profession: Fiction Writer

Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE, published 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 title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.