Glory and the Lightning Quotes

“There is nothing stronger and nobler than when man and wife are of one heart and mind in a house. A grief to their foes, and to their friends great joy. But their own hearts know it best.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning: A Novel of Ancient Greece

“If a man seeks to help and glorify his country and make her strong before her enemies his own people will leap at his throat and call him malefactor, a thief, a mountebank, a liar! Better it is to smile and smile and smile upon the people and show a shining countenance than to raise them above the ruck.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning: A Novel of Ancient Greece

“The majority of men are born with constricted understanding and circumscribed intellect. So intensive education would not only be useless in their case but would only confuse and frustrate them, and incite them to anger and resentment.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning: A Novel of Ancient Greece

“Western man established the initial base for an argument, defined his terms, demolished his opponent with irrefutable logic or was demolished by his own ineptitude of reasoning.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning: A Novel of Ancient Greece

“Then, my sweet, you are still an innocent, and I am amazed. Lies are far more potent than the truth, and far ore dangerous. They have caused the death of more good men than any deadly truth has done. For human nature is inherently evil and it prefers lies, and delights in the suffering of the just which it has inflicted.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning

“The true purpose of education,” Aspasia would explain patiently to inquirers, “is not to enable a man or a woman to make money or attain high position and self-aggrandisement. It is to enlarge the soul, to widen the mind, to stimulate wonder, to give a new vision and understanding of the world, to excite the intellect, to awaken dormant faculties for the exultation of the possessor. In short, to reveal new vistas of thought and comprehension so that enjoyment of life is enhanced. An ignorant man or woman is half-blind, and does not truly hear, and so existence is narrow and limited.” She”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning: A Novel of Ancient Greece

“It is easier to crouch on your knees and be fed by government than it is to stand on your feet and find your own sustenance.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning: A Novel of Ancient Greece

“The Egyptians said that a physician could cure only if his heart was moved and his emotions engaged in behalf of a patient,”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning: A Novel of Ancient Greece

“When the Romans looked a little baffled, he said, "Let us suppose that certain crimes in the Constitution you are now planning carry the capital penalty. And let us then suppose that future generations of politicians shall say, 'That is not exactly what our fathers intended in that particular table of law.' or, 'They really intended such and such.' Who can then refute the politicians? Who among you would be alive to insist that indeed the old meaning was intended? In hsort, different ages would have different interpretations for their own purposes.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning

“Mientras yo viva amado mío, no seré un cadaver”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning

“–¿De qué tenéis miedo?– pero ellas no contestaron y se limitaron a mirarla furtivamente, y Aspasia comprendió que temían darle un nombre a su terror, no fuera a acudir como ante una llamada.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning

“Las deidades amenazadoras de los jardines no representaban seres reales, sino más bien la emanación de esos seres.”
― Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning