You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny. — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“The rest of us learned the simple lesson - invaluable in a bureaucratic society - that there is no moral or practical obligation to tell the truth when filling in forms.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“...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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
