Taylor Caldwell Quotes

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

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

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

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

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

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.

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

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

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls

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

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

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

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

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

At 8, I made a pact with God.

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

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

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

I converse with my dog through ESP

The world is a penal institution.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

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

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.

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

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

My dreams are all follies.

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.

It is not always wise to appear singular.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

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

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul

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