Author: Malcolm Muggeridge

Quotes

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

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