“At the Serima Mission, in Victoria Province, I am shown around by an enchantingly pretty African nun called Sister Balbina...She cannot be more than 25, and has the most delightful figure. How poignant that she should have dedicated her life… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share
“We had to fill in forms which asked us whether we had ever been convicted of any crime. I hesitated about this. The NCO… — auberon waugh Copy Share
The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong — Auberon Waugh Copy Share
“People enter politics or the Civil Service out of a desire to exert power and influence events; this, I maintain, is an illness. It's… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share
The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share
In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to perpetrate something… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share
“My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share
“...the modern State's greatest single instrument of oppression, its murderous tax on drink...accounts for nearly all the miseries besetting our once-merry land; football hooliganism,… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share
There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share
“Rather to my surprise, I found myself genuinely indignant at the suggestion that murder was to be reintroduced as a means of political advancement… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share
“It is just a lonely certainty that we are right and everybody else wrong, which makes it worthwhile for us busy-bodies to go on… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share
When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her,… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share
“Listening to the Gospel on Palm Sunday, it struck me that many people criticise Pontius Pilate for his role in the affair while letting… — auberon waugh Copy Share
Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share
