Quotes by G. Trevelyan

• One half who graduate from college never read another book.
• Village cricket spread fast through the land.
• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
• Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
• 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.
• I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
• Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
• A little man often cast a long shadow.
• Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.