"Honor wears different coats to different eyes." — Barbara Tuchman
"Honor wears different coats to different eyes."
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68 Quotes by Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Tuchman has 68 quotes on this site.
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of…
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy…
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard,…
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When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no…
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose…
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory…
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material,…
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More Coats Quotes
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one of 408 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent:…
— Russell Baker
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and…
— Dennis Banks
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I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?
— Clara Barton
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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
— Robert Benchley
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I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
— Albert Brooks
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While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and…
— Rita Mae Brown
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the…
— Charlie Chaplin
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I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple…
— Tracy Chapman
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Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for…
— Hillary Clinton
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Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat…
— Dorothy Allison
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With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a…
— Harold Wilson
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It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat…
— Ernest Hemingway
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