George Eliot Quotes About History

• History repeats itself.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Wisdom, History

• If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Squirrels, History

  "Middlemarch". Volume 1,

• The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

  George Eliot

  Women, History, Historical

  The Mill on the Floss bk. 6, ch. 3 (1860)

• What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

  George Eliot

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.261, Penguin

• History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

  George Eliot

  History, Repeats, Knows

  George Eliot (1884*). “Silas Marner, The lifted veil, and Brother Jacob. Scenes of clerical life”

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