The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment. (Tread Softly)
Malcolm Muggeridge quote This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
Malcolm Muggeridge quote Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge quote The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
Malcolm Muggeridge quote 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 quote Bad humour is an evasion of reality; good humour is an acceptance of it.
Malcolm Muggeridge quote Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
Malcolm Muggeridge quote 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 quote Biography
British journalist, 1903-90
