All Barbara Tuchman Quotes
- Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period,… All
- Books are humanity in print. Book
- Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. Comfort
- Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced Almost Never
- The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and… Ben
- Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot. Age
- When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down. Becomes
- For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use. Belligerent
- Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print. Bankers
- Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition. Ammunition
- I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. End
- After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I… Always Wanted
- When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend… Children
- For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up… All
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of… Books
- Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. Bankers
- Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war. Battles
- A relentless talent for tactlessness. Relentless