Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

Most popular Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. - Malcolm Muggeridge quote.
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
— Malcolm Muggeridge Radio Times

contrarian fish

The point is, could God pass an examination in Theology? - Malcolm Muggeridge quote.
The point is, could God pass an examination in Theology?
— Malcolm Muggeridge

theology

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. - Malcolm Muggeridge quote.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
— Malcolm Muggeridge

old age

Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. - Malcolm Muggeridge quote.
Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight.
— Malcolm Muggeridge Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes

politicians

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. - Malcolm Muggeridge quote.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
— Malcolm Muggeridge

humor

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. - Malcolm Muggeridge quote.
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
— Malcolm Muggeridge The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge

action retirement

We English have sex on the brain, which is not the most satisfactory place for it. - Malcolm Muggeridge quote.
We English have sex on the brain, which is not the most satisfactory place for it.
— Malcolm Muggeridge in The Observer (London)

English people

Many of us look at the Ten Commandments as an exam paper: eight only to be attempted. - Malcolm Muggeridge quote.
Many of us look at the Ten Commandments as an exam paper: eight only to be attempted.
— Malcolm Muggeridge Reality Ireland

morals

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. - Malcolm Muggeridge quote.
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
— Malcolm Muggeridge Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes

orgasms

Television was not intended to make humans vacuous; but it is an emanation of their vacuity. - Malcolm Muggeridge quote.
Television was not intended to make humans vacuous; but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
— Malcolm Muggeridge Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes

television

First-rate pursuits—involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is all about and conveying that understanding—inevitably result in a sense of failure. - Malcolm Muggeridge quote.
First-rate pursuits—involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is all about and conveying that understanding—inevitably result in a sense of failure.
— Malcolm Muggeridge Muggeridge Through the Microphone

failure