22 Quotations by Malcolm Muggeridge
- 1. Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
- 2. Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to g ...
- 3. Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
- 4. Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
- 5. He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
- 6. I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live u ...
- 7. In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, lick ...
- 8. It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more ...
- 9. My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adop ...
- 10. One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the ...
- 11. One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
- 12. Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
- 13. St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
- 14. Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
- 15. The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its ...
- 16. The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
- 17. The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in ...
- 18. The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their ...
- 19. The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living ...
- 20. There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still m ...
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