Mary Ann Evans

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

    A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman’s life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul’s highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    I sometimes think when I’m on the stage “What do they mean? Is this great, what I’m doing now?”
    —Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)