Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!
G. M. TrevelyanIf the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
G. M. TrevelyanThere is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
G. M. TrevelyanThe best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.
G. M. TrevelyanThe chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.
G. M. Trevelyan