Mary Ann Evans

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

    ... people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fools’ caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    If Mary came would Mary
    Forgive, as Mothers may,
    And sad and second Saviour
    Furnish us today?
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    ... actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.
    —Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)