"Good taste and humor are a contradiction in……" — Malcolm Muggeridge
"Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore."
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Malcolm Muggeridge
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82 Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge has 82 quotes on this site.
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I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized…
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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as…
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This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare…
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Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up…
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a…
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or…
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by…
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More Chaste Quotes
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one of 89 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
— Honore de Balzac
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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men!…
— Swami Vivekananda
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As chaste as unsunned snow.
— William Shakespeare
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure…
— William Shakespeare
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
— Eric Hoffer
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
— Lord Byron
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Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from…
— Pope Pius XII
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