The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. – 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
Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. – G. M. Trevelyan
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. – G. M. Trevelyan
