G. M. Trevelyan Quotes

A little man often cast a long shadow.
G. M. Trevelyan

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
G. M. Trevelyan

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
G. M. Trevelyan

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
G. M. Trevelyan

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

One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
G. M. Trevelyan

Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan

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G. M. Trevelyan Quotes

Type: Historian Quotes Category: English Historian Quotes Date of Birth: February 16, 1876 Date of Death: July 21, 1962 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: G. M. Trevelyan Related Authors: Edward Gibbon Harold Acton Thomas B. Macaulay John Acton Anita Brookner John Keegan James Anthony Froude Edward Norman Henry James Sumner Maine	A little man often cast a long shadow. G. M. Trevelyan Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. G. M. Trevelyan Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. G. M. Trevelyan Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. G. M. Trevelyan Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. G. M. Trevelyan If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. G. M. Trevelyan 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 One half who graduate from college never read another book. G. M. Trevelyan Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. G. M. Trevelyan The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. G. M. Trevelyan Village cricket spread fast through the land. G. M. Trevelyan