Malcolm muggeridge

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

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.

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

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

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

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

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

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

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.