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

One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan

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

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
G. M. Trevelyan

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

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