All Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
- The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it. Advantage
- Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. Glory
- An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation. Alluring
- In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. Decisive
- A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts. Decrepit
- American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which… Allure
- In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false. Among
- The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd… All
- When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the… Absurd
- 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… Been
- Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. Art
- People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to. Belief
- Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. Confidence
- 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… Beholden
- 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… Advertising
- Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. Acceptance
- 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… All
- Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. Able
- 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… Any
- St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. Avila