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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 QUOTES

The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 QUOTES

1 " Everything interested him and everything excited him. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

2 " House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

3 " William McKinley was a man made to be managed. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

4 " What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster? "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

5 " Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

6 " The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

7 " The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

8 " A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

9 " Duty was not untinged by ambition. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

10 " Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

11 " Even his own speeches bored him. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

12 " He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

13 " Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

14 " If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

15 " The scene is France. The theater is the world. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

16 " Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

17 " The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

18 " All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

19 " Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

20 " Everything took on the color of blood. "

― Barbara W. Tuchman , The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914