All new news is old news happening to new people

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Christianity. . . Sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values, and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious a hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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

— Malcolm Muggeridge

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

— Malcolm Muggeridge