Taylor Caldwell

My childhood was appalling.

— Taylor Caldwell

I will know him by his eyes.

— Taylor Caldwell

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

— Taylor Caldwell

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

— Taylor Caldwell

I converse with my dog through ESP

— Taylor Caldwell

I've always enjoyed poor health

— Taylor Caldwell

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

— Taylor Caldwell

'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

— Taylor Caldwell

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

— Taylor Caldwell

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

— Taylor Caldwell

“money came from human misery and death and despair, as always it does.”

— Taylor Caldwell

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God’s,

— Taylor Caldwell

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

— Taylor Caldwell

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

— Taylor Caldwell

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

— Taylor Caldwell

“We all choose how to look at life. -- A Prologue to Love ”

— Taylor Caldwell

“No man is more abhorred than a man who is different from his neighbors. They feel violated and threatened if one dares…

— Taylor Caldwell

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

— Taylor Caldwell

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

— Taylor Caldwell

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

— Taylor Caldwell

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

— Taylor Caldwell

“You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are.…

— 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…

— Taylor Caldwell

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

— Taylor Caldwell

If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil,…

— Taylor Caldwell

But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant…

— Taylor Caldwell

“Man and the State. Always must they be enemies, for men had been given freedom by God and the State hated God,…

— Taylor Caldwell

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered…

— 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…

— Taylor Caldwell

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the…

— Taylor Caldwell

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of…

— Taylor Caldwell

“Then, my sweet, you are still an innocent, and I am amazed. Lies are far more potent than the truth, and far…

— Taylor Caldwell

There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope,…

— Taylor Caldwell

We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation…

— Taylor Caldwell

Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the…

— Taylor Caldwell

“On the day when you again allow abominable men to confiscate your freedom, your money, your lives, your private property, your manhood…

— Taylor Caldwell

“What manner of men had lived in those days...who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion? Why…

— Taylor Caldwell

“Yes," said Pericles. "Today's patriotism may be tomorrow's treason, if it serves any judge or politician. And so it would go with…

— Taylor Caldwell

You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences,…

— Taylor Caldwell

“When the Romans looked a little baffled, he said, "Let us suppose that certain crimes in the Constitution you are now planning…

— Taylor Caldwell