The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. Malcolm Muggeridge Read Quote
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. Malcolm Muggeridge Read Quote
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. Malcolm Muggeridge Read Quote
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. Malcolm Muggeridge Read Quote
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. Malcolm Muggeridge Read Quote
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. Malcolm Muggeridge Read Quote