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title: "12 14Th Century Quotes By Barbara Tuchman"
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> [Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/modern-historians-have-suggested-that-in-his-last-years-he-richard-ii/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be3/barbara-tuchman-3945_century_modern-historians-have-suggested-that-in_521307.png)

> [ Woman \[in the 14th century\] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/woman-in-the-14th-century-was-the-church-s-rival-the-temptress-the/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

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> [Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/money-was-the-crux-raising-money-to-pay-the-cost-of-war-was-to-cause/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

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> [ The Church \[in the 14th century\] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/the-church-in-the-14th-century-gave-ceremony-and-dignity-to-lives/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

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> [ The clergy \[in the 14th century\] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/the-clergy-in-the-14th-century-on-the-whole-were-probably-no-more/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

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> [The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/the-social-damage-was-not-in-the-failure-but-in-the-undertaking-which/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

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> [ No female iniquity was more severely condemned \[in the 14th century\] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/no-female-iniquity-was-more-severely-condemned-in-the-14th-century/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

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> [ The nastiness of women \[in the 14th century\] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/the-nastiness-of-women-in-the-14th-century-was-generally-perceived-at/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

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> [ No economic activity was more irrepressible \[in the 14th century\] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/no-economic-activity-was-more-irrepressible-in-the-14th-century-than/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

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> [The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/the-ills-and-disorders-of-the-14th-century-could-not-be-without/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

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> [ To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law \[in the 14th century\] prohibited innovation in tools or… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/to-ensure-that-no-one-gained-an-advantage-over-anyone-else-commercial-2/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

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> [ While husbands and lovers in the stories \[of the 14th century\] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/while-husbands-and-lovers-in-the-stories-of-the-14th-century-are-of/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

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## More by Barbara Tuchman

> [While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/while-husbands-and-lovers-in-the-stories-are-of-all-kinds-ranging/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/doctrine-tied-itself-into-infinite-knots-over-the-realities-of-sex/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/the-fleet-sailed-to-its-war-base-in-the-north-sea-headed-not-so-much/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/learning-from-experience-is-a-faculty-almost-never-practiced/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [War is the unfolding of miscalculations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/war-is-the-unfolding-of-miscalculations/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/the-poets-have-familiarized-more-people-with-history-than-have-the/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/money-was-the-crux-raising-money-to-pay-the-cost-of-war-was-to-cause/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/misgovernment-is-of-four-kinds-often-in-combination-they-are-1/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [The power to command frequently causes failure to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/the-power-to-command-frequently-causes-failure-to-think/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/we-seem-to-be-afflicted-by-a-widespread-and-eroding-reluctance-to/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [ The clergy \[in the 14th century\] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/the-clergy-in-the-14th-century-on-the-whole-were-probably-no-more/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/without-books-history-is-silent-literature-dumb-science-crippled/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/words-are-seductive-and-dangerous-material-to-be-used-with-caution/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [“German soldiers, posted as informers, were found dressed as peasants, even as peasant women. The latter were discovered, presumably in the course of non-military…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/german-soldiers-posted-as-informers-were-found-dressed-as-peasants/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

> [I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-tuchman/i-ask-myself-have-nations-ever-declined-from-a-loss-of-moral-sense/)

[Barbara Tuchman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-tuchman/)

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