Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• 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

  Happiness, Jesus, Discovery

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1975). “Jesus, the Man who lives”, HarperCollins

• I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Happiness, Men, Want

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.225, Regent College Publishing

• 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

  Happiness, Joy, Trying

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge”

• There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase - the pursuit of happiness - is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Happiness, People, Phrases

  "Woman's Hour" on the BBC, October 05, 1965.

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