Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (London), January… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization... .....Books are humanity in print. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
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… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image