Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge, was a British journalist, author, media personality, and satirist. As a young man, Muggeridge was a left-wing sympathiser but he later became a forceful anti-communist. During World War II, he worked for the British government as a soldier and a spy. He is credited with bringing Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West and stimulating debate about Catholic theology. In his later years he was outspoken on religious and moral issues. He wrote two volumes of...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth24 March 1903
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The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.
I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are people who respond much better to facts and truthful, genuine speculation, than they do to purely, kind of phoney, adulation.
One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.