Quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
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
I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
- Malcolm Muggeridge