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Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
– 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.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
– 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.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
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.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
– Malcolm Muggeridge