Barbara W. Tuchman Zitate auf Englisch

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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.

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

Barbara W. Tuchman

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

Barbara W. Tuchman

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

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

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Books are humanity in print.

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

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

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

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

Barbara W. Tuchman

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

Barbara W. Tuchman

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

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

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

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

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

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