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

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

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

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

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

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

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

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