Taylor Caldwell's Quotes

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

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

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

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

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

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.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

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

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

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

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

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

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

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

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

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

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

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

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

At 8, I made a pact with God.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

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

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

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

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