Taylor Caldwell quotes

Taylor Caldwell was an English-born American novelist, known for her historical and family saga novels. Her works captivated millions of readers with rich storytelling and complex characters. She created over forty best-selling novels, establishing herself as a prominent figure in twentieth-century literature. Here are 77 of her quotes:

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

Taylor Caldwell

I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me... has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me.... I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

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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

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.

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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.

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

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I have been the victim of heartless malice.

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My literary success meant nothing to me.

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

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

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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

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

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Money? I lost all taste for it.

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

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I've always enjoyed poor health.

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

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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

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I am the skeptic of skeptics.

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Are we not all desperate one way or another?

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