Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

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

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

I'm much too modest a person.

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.

I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

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.

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.

I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.

I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.

I don't like seeing people angry.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

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.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.

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

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

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

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