G. M. Young Quotes

1882–1959 England

George Malcolm Young (29 April 1882 – 18 November 1959) was an English historian, most famous for his long essay on Victorian times in England, Portrait of an Age (1936).

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Also known as: G M Young

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The greater part of what passes for diplomatic history is little more than the record of what one clerk said to another clerk.

Victorian England: Portrait of an Age (1936)

A man has no more right to an opinion for which he cannot account than to a pint of beer for which he cannot pay.

The human mind is still something of a troglodyte. Expelled from one falling cavern, its first thought is to find another.

Portrait of an Age (1936)

A historian should "go on reading (...) until you can hear people talking. Then you will understand why things happened as they did."

Today and Yesterday (1948)

To play King Richard to somebody else's Wat Tyler has always been a Tory fancy.

Portrait of an Age (1936)

A flight of perplexed unstable minds into the Confessional, into Spiritualism, into strange Eastern Cults.

Portrait of an Age (1936)

It was one of Lord Salisbury's paradoxes that only uncontentious legislation should be brought before Parliament: if it were contentious, then public opinion was not ripe for it.

Portrait of an Age (1936)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: G. M. Young (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.