Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
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.

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

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

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

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

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

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

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

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