G. M. Trevelyan

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

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

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

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. ”

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization. ”

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

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

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ”