187 Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed

Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

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.

I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.