Barbara Tuchman Frasi e Citazioni
“Non c'è nulla che mi faccia sentir male come la porta chiusa di una biblioteca.”
sulla raccolta fondi per la New York Public Library, dal New Yorker, 21 aprile 1986
Barbara Tuchman: Frasi in inglese
Origine: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“History is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, p. 132 (1970)
Variante: Books are... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.
“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”
Origine: The Guns of August
“In the midst of events there is no perspective.”
Origine: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 454
“Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.”
Origine: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 469
“What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.”
Origine: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 291
“Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.”
Enguerrand VII de Coucy, quoted on p. 570
A Distant Mirror (1978)
“When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.”
Admiral Jean de Vienne, quoted on p. 559
A Distant Mirror (1978)
“Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.”
Origine: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 487
“Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.”
Origine: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 523
“To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.”
Origine: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 459