G. M. Trevelyan Quotes

"Village cricket spread fast through the land."
- G. M. Trevelyan
(Related: Cricket, Land)

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."
- G. M. Trevelyan
(Related: Education, Population, Reading, Worth)

"Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out."
- G. M. Trevelyan
(Related: History, Politics, People)

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."
- G. M. Trevelyan
(Related: God, May, Waiting)

"I have two doctors, my left leg and my right."
- G. M. Trevelyan
(Related: Doctors, Right)

"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization."
- G. M. Trevelyan
(Related: Life, Civilization, Blood, Curiosity)

"A little man often cast a long shadow."
- G. M. Trevelyan
(Related: Man, Shadow)

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."
- G. M. Trevelyan
(Related: Thought, Action, Responsibility)

"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."
- G. M. Trevelyan
(Related: Anger, Control, Madness, Passion, Will)

"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
- G. M. Trevelyan
(Related: Excuses, Job)

"If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt."
- G. M. Trevelyan
(Related: Cricket)