Taylor Caldwell Quotes & Sayings

Man and the State. Always must they be enemies, for men had been given freedom by God and the State hated God, and loathed men and everlastingly fought against the rights of men. The liberty of the individual defied the luxury and the privileges of those who deemed themselves greater and wiser than their fellows, and wished to enslave their brothers. The — Taylor Caldwell

There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself. — Taylor Caldwell

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world. — Taylor Caldwell

If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it. — Taylor Caldwell

My literary success meant nothing to me. — Taylor Caldwell

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it. — Taylor Caldwell

My childhood was appalling. — Taylor Caldwell

Tel Aviv appeals to me. — Taylor Caldwell

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses. — Taylor Caldwell

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded. — Taylor Caldwell

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty. — Taylor Caldwell

It is not always wise to appear singular. — Taylor Caldwell

We all feel inadequate very often. It's only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one's emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable. — Taylor Caldwell

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors. — Taylor Caldwell

Saints rarely have friends; they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men ... saints do not advertise themselves; good men do not seek out a name in the world ... the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God. — Taylor Caldwell

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you. — Taylor Caldwell

Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism. — Taylor Caldwell

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted. — Taylor Caldwell

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist. — Taylor Caldwell

Are we not all desperate one way or another? — Taylor Caldwell

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints. — Taylor Caldwell

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves. — Taylor Caldwell

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions. — Taylor Caldwell

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. — Taylor Caldwell

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism. — Taylor Caldwell

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity. — Taylor Caldwell

If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me. — Taylor Caldwell

We are not old unless we desire to be. — Taylor Caldwell

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune. — Taylor Caldwell

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul. — Taylor Caldwell

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India. — Taylor Caldwell

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. — Taylor Caldwell

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me. — Taylor Caldwell

At 8, I made a pact with God. — Taylor Caldwell

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite. — Taylor Caldwell

God's 'failures' are really man's failures ... — Taylor Caldwell

I often reread books I have written. — Taylor Caldwell

The feeble soul merely whines and complains. — Taylor Caldwell

I have been the victim of heartless malice. — Taylor Caldwell

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state ... And absolute security is absolute slavery. — Taylor Caldwell

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere. — Taylor Caldwell

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. — Taylor Caldwell

The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific — Taylor Caldwell

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. — Taylor Caldwell

If people are lucky enough to have family they should cultivate it.
A Prologue to Love — Taylor Caldwell

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die. — Taylor Caldwell

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race. — Taylor Caldwell

Money? I lost all taste for it. — Taylor Caldwell

You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are.
A Prologue to Love — Taylor Caldwell

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned. — Taylor Caldwell

We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world — Taylor Caldwell

But the people in the old country love their children. We have big families, and by the time a child is a year old he knows where he fits in the family and what he should do and what he shouldn't do. He knows his parents love him but that they're not going to stand for any nonsense and tantrums. So he is satisfied and feels safe. American children never feel safe. -The Listener — Taylor Caldwell

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. — Taylor Caldwell

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed. — Taylor Caldwell

No man is more abhorred than a man who is different from his neighbors. They feel violated and threatened if one dares to be as they are not. — Taylor Caldwell

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other. — Taylor Caldwell

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death. — Taylor Caldwell

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile. — Taylor Caldwell

Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the hand that raised up obscenities and blasphemies. Man was the pariah-dog, the moral leper in this translucent mirror of Heaven. He was the muddier of crystal waters, the despoiler of forests, the murderer of the innocent, the challenger against God. He was the assassin of the saints and the prophets, for they spoke of what he WOULD NOT HEAR, in the darkness of his spirit! — Taylor Caldwell

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves. — Taylor Caldwell

You'll notice that it is the haters of humanity who are always trying to reform it. They want to feel superior to the general run of mankind. — Taylor Caldwell

The more wants a man has, the less freedom. — Taylor Caldwell

God is never absent from the affairs of men, though we are not conscious of Him very often. — Taylor Caldwell

Everyone living is doomed — Taylor Caldwell

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government. — Taylor Caldwell

My dreams are all follies. — Taylor Caldwell

Animals do not betray; they do not exploit; they do not oppress; they do not enslave; they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man? — Taylor Caldwell

I have anonymously helped many thousands. — Taylor Caldwell

I am a Westerner of Westerners! — Taylor Caldwell

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. — Taylor Caldwell

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls. — Taylor Caldwell

I've always enjoyed poor health. — Taylor Caldwell

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end. — Taylor Caldwell

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments. — Taylor Caldwell

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation. — Taylor Caldwell

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living ... — Taylor Caldwell

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth. — Taylor Caldwell

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's, — Taylor Caldwell

'He is very ugly,' said his mother. — Taylor Caldwell

You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry. This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide. — Taylor Caldwell

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer. — Taylor Caldwell

I will ge glad to have done with this life forever. — Taylor Caldwell

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it. — Taylor Caldwell

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans. — Taylor Caldwell

It's a funny thing about love: you don't need to have it returned to love somebody. Loving's enough.
A Prologue to Love — Taylor Caldwell

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes. — Taylor Caldwell

I am the skeptic of skeptics. — Taylor Caldwell

The world is a penal institution. — Taylor Caldwell

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions. — Taylor Caldwell

I will know him by his eyes. — Taylor Caldwell

We all choose how to look at life.
A Prologue to Love — Taylor Caldwell

I converse with my dog through ESP. — Taylor Caldwell

I'm not that interested in people. — Taylor Caldwell

A statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable. — Taylor Caldwell

But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh. — Taylor Caldwell

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools. — Taylor Caldwell

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives? — Taylor Caldwell