Mary Ann Evans

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

    “I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Life is in the mouth; death is in the mouth.”
    —Hawaiian saying no. 60, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)

    “There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won’t come true.”
    —Ray Evans (b. 1915)