Famous quotes containing the words mary ann, mary, ann and/or holmes:
“I tell you there isn’t a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it’s bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha’ been left to the men.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“... one’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find depreciated.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
““No, no; the real name,” said Holmes sweetly. “It is always awkward doing business with an alias.””
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)