Malcolm MuggeridgeThinkers

Advertising history will see as one of the real evil things of our time, owing to the fact that it is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Cambridge is the romantic dream of those who never went there.

Civilization is a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit vultures.

Evelyn Waugh is an antique in search of a period, a snob in search of a class.

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

Humor is the difference between man's aspiration and his achievement.

Independence is wise — Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Journalism is a field that finds its glory in its transience.

Leisure is the opiate of the masses.

The Lie is often believed not because people have to believe it, but because they want to.

Life is only theatre, and mostly cheap melodrama at that.