Top 17 Hugh Trevor Roper Quotes
#1. It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".
D. V. Ager
#2. What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?
George Eliot
#4. You don't think about it that often, but you don't realize how many of your friends have come and gone. It makes you feel very fortunate.
Trevor McNevan
#6. The working class positively benefited from Hitler's rule, under which the standard of living was raised till it became the highest in Europe.
Hugh Trevor-Roper
#7. Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.
Isaac Asimov
#10. History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
#11. The death of the spirit which threatens every man unless he is conscious of the danger and has a real purpose which can keep it alive and enable it to thrust its way through the choking weeds and thorns to the air and to the sun
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
#13. 'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.
Nathan Sawaya
#14. The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
#15. Then he wants to use himself and things
So that they stand in the glow of ripeness.
It doesn't matter whether he knows what he serves:
Who serves best doesn't always understand.
Czeslaw Milosz
#16. It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick.
Mark Twain
#17. strong, stirring instant as with fascinated eyes I watched
Zane Grey
