37 Quotes by G. M. Trevelyan

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.

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.

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

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

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

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

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.