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Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

«Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge | Keywords: evasion, evasions
«One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up»
«Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.»
«The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.»
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge | About: Advertising, History | Keywords: stimulating
«There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.»
«Travel, of course, narrows the mind.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge | Keywords: narrows
«[Evelyn Waugh] was an antique in search of a period, a snob in search of a class.»
«For as we abolish the ills and pains of the flesh we multiply those of the mind, so by the time mankind are finally delivered from disease and decay - all pasteurised, their genes counted and re-arranged, filled with new replaceable plastic organs, a»

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