Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live u...

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

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in...

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderfu...

[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the ...

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get a...

Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms like a chaste whore.

When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In o...

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

All new news is old news happening to new people

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you beli...

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

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

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

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been ap...

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the mos...

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the ...

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