No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
BARBARA TUCHMANThe muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history’s clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.
More Barbara Tuchman Quotes
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
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Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
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The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
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To put away one’s own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.
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To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
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bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.
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Books are the carriers of civilization… Books are humanity in print.
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More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
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The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
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I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.
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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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