145 Quotes by Barbara Tuchman

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

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

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

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

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.

Above all, discard the irrelevant.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.