Barbara Tuchman Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

12 Famous Quotes by Barbara Tuchman
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“When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.”
War Quotes
“To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.”
Libraries Quotes
“A relentless talent for tactlessness.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Books are humanity in print.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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 change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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