Inspirational Quotes by Taylor Caldwell (American Novelist)

Taylor Caldwell (1900–85,) born Janet Miriam Caldwell, was a British-born American novelist known for historical and religious fiction. Over her career, she published 43 novels, many of which became bestsellers.

Born in Manchester, England, she immigrated to the U.S. with her family in 1907. She began writing young, completing The Romance of Atlantis at 12 (unpublished until 1975.) While attending the University of Buffalo, she worked in government offices, graduating in 1931.

Her first published novel, Dynasty of Death (1938,) was a family saga about munitions makers, followed by The Eagles Gather (1940) and The Final Hour (1944.) Other notable works include The Earth Is the Lord’s (1940,) The Arm and the Darkness (1943,) This Side of Innocence (1946,) Dear and Glorious Physician (1959; about Saint Luke,) A Pillar of Iron (1965; about Cicero,) Captains and the Kings (1972,) and Answer As a Man (1980.)

Her novels often explored power, ambition, and historical figures, blending drama with meticulous research. Many were adapted for film and television, solidifying her status as a popular storyteller.

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Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.
—Taylor Caldwell
Topics: Power, Deception/Lying

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
Topics: Society

The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific
—Taylor Caldwell
Topics: Generations

Childish raptures!
—Taylor Caldwell
Topics: The Mind

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.
—Taylor Caldwell
Topics: Liberalism

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 word seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.
—Taylor Caldwell
Topics: Deception/Lying, Power, Christmas

Inspirational Quotes by Taylor Caldwell (American Novelist)

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