Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Strength
  • Determination

• We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Peace
  • Religion
  • Harmony

• I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Fun
  • Water
  • Sports

• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
  • Girls
  • Horrible

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Government
  • Revolution
  • West

• If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Magic
  • Tax
  • Wave

• I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Men
  • Women
  • Movie

• Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Great
  • Attention
  • Health

• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Guy
  • Attention
  • Nice

• Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Power
  • Party
  • Office

• I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

  

  Idi Amin
  • World
  • Myself
  • Powerful

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Star

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Sky

• I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Satisfaction

• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Rose

• I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

  

  Thomas Brodie-Sangster
  • Trying

• The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Time
  • English
  • Doubt

• I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Single
  • English
  • Period

• The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.

  

  Jeremy Paxman
  • Die
  • English

• Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Serious
  • English
  • Humor