Barbara Tuchman

Honor wears different coats to different eyes. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#different #eyes #honor #wears

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

— Barbara Tuchman

#door #library #me #more #nothing

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

— Barbara Tuchman

#dead #general #great #maxim #military

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

— Barbara Tuchman

#capricious #demands #discipline #easy #enough

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 Tuchman

#base #discretion #fleet #glory #headed

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

— Barbara Tuchman

#away #book #ghost #holy #holy ghost