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Quotes by "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
Tags: who, person, job, best
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
— G. M. Trevelyan
Tags: been, capable, playing, never, cricket
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
— G. M. Trevelyan
Tags: land, through, fast, village
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
— G. M. Trevelyan
Tags: intellectual, real, curiosity, life
A little man often cast a long shadow.
— G. M. Trevelyan
Tags: little, long, man, shadow
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
— G. M. Trevelyan
Tags: will, anger, passion, you
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
— G. M. Trevelyan
Tags: left, people, history, politics
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
— G. M. Trevelyan
Tags: who, college, book, never
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
— G. M. Trevelyan
Tags: springs, thought, action, responsibility
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
— G. M. Trevelyan
Tags: population, worth, reading, education
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