Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes (11 quotations)
1. [Evelyn Waugh] was an antique in search of a period, a snob in search of a class. - Malcolm Muggeridge
2. Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. - Malcolm Muggeridge
3. 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
4. Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. - Malcolm Muggeridge
5. 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
6. In Europe the ubiquitous GI, with his camera like a third eye, created wherever he went a little America, air-conditioned, steam-heated and neon-lighted. In American eyes he was a liberator and defender of freedom. In other eyes he often seemed part of an American army of occupation. To all he symbolized Europe's enfeeblement and the shift of world power and wealth across the Atlantic. - Malcolm Muggeridge
7. 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
8. My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. - Malcolm Muggeridge
9. Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. - Malcolm Muggeridge
10. The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. - Malcolm Muggeridge
11. 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
2. Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. - Malcolm Muggeridge
3. 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
4. Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. - Malcolm Muggeridge
5. 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
6. In Europe the ubiquitous GI, with his camera like a third eye, created wherever he went a little America, air-conditioned, steam-heated and neon-lighted. In American eyes he was a liberator and defender of freedom. In other eyes he often seemed part of an American army of occupation. To all he symbolized Europe's enfeeblement and the shift of world power and wealth across the Atlantic. - Malcolm Muggeridge
7. 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
8. My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. - Malcolm Muggeridge
9. Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. - Malcolm Muggeridge
10. The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. - Malcolm Muggeridge
11. 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
