Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Taylor Caldwell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Taylor Caldwell.

Last updated on September 16, 2024.

Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell was a British-born American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback.

American - Novelist | September 7, 1900 - August 30, 1985

Source: Wikipedia

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

I'm not that interested in people.

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

I will know him by his eyes.

Taylor Caldwell

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

The world is a penal institution.

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

Money? I lost all taste for it.

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Taylor Caldwell

I have anonymously helped many thousands.

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

Taylor Caldwell

At 8, I made a pact with God.

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

I often reread books I have written.

Taylor Caldwell

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

My literary success meant nothing to me.

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

I've always enjoyed poor health.

Taylor Caldwell

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

Taylor Caldwell

My dreams are all follies.

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

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

My childhood was appalling.

Taylor Caldwell

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

Taylor Caldwell

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

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

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

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

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Taylor Caldwell

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Taylor Caldwell

I converse with my dog through ESP.

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

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

Taylor Caldwell

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Taylor Caldwell

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

Taylor Caldwell

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

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

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

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

Taylor Caldwell

Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Taylor Caldwell

Related Authors