129 Quotes by Taylor Caldwell

You’ll notice that it is the haters of humanity who are always trying to reform it. They want to feel superior to the general run of mankind.

When you are young you believe the world is all yours, glorious and exhilarating and fascinating and full of promise and trumpets and drums and marches and new worlds,” said Charles. “We don’t ask ourselves what we are living for then. We know. But we forget, later, or it all seems a foolish dream.

I’m not that interested in people.

What is it Aristotle said? ‘Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.’ Yes. Populism is becoming popular in America – an old doctrine, though its adherents invariably think it is a new one, age after age.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can’t always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

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

I converse with my dog through ESP.

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

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.