Quotes by : Barbara W. Tuchman

Society's revenge matched its fright.

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.

One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely....

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in....

All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.

Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.....