Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Malcolm Muggeridge Writer

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: Mar 24, 1903
  • Died: Nov 14, 1990

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge was an English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist. During World War II, he worked for the British government as a soldier and a spy. As a young man, Muggeridge was a left-wing sympathiser but he later became a forceful anti-communist. He is credited with bringing Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West and stimulating debate about Catholic theology. In his later years he became a religious and moral campaigner.

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

Travel, of course, narrows the mind. travel

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

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. religion & society

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. religion

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

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

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. strength