"Humor is practically the only thing about which……" — Malcolm Muggeridge

"Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious."

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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82 Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

Malcolm Muggeridge has 82 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized…
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as…
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare…
Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up…
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a…
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or…
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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 English Quotes

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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time… — Christian Bale
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and… — Javier Bardem
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

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