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Top 22 Quotes & Sayings by Barbara W. Tuchman

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Last updated on September 16, 2024.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.

American - Historian | January 30, 1912 - February 6, 1989

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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. — © Barbara W. Tuchman

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

Books are humanity in print.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. 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 discretion.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

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, appeasement of Fascism.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

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 in.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

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 had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

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 full days at work. — © Barbara W. Tuchman

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 full days at work.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman

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