Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.”

“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.”

“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.”

“St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.”

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

“Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.”

“Travel, of course, narrows the mind.”

“He was not only a bore; he bored for England.”

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