Mary Ann Evans

Famous quotes containing the words mary ann, mary, ann and/or evans:

    When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn’t have the end without them.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    A fine-looking mill, but no machinery inside.
    Hawaiian saying no. 1702, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)

    More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    I can’t imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
    —Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)