Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

#Funny, #Humor

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them...

#Happiness

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up...

#Happiness

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

#Humor

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

#Sex

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

#Sex

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It...

#History

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

#Age

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances...

#Truth

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I...

#Laughter

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their...

#Television

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

#Humor