276 Quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman

Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.

Even his own speeches bored him.

Adams, not yet replaced, repeated that "the arrogant English were treating Amsterdam exactly as they had Boston." With that fatal gift for the unlearned lesson, the produced the same result - unity against the oppressor, which in America had brought the fractious colonies into their first federation.

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher

When a pope's election could not be explained rationally, it was attributed to the Holy Ghost.

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.