Quote by Auberon Waugh Download Open image ““But if one can't believe the Daily Telegraph one might as well become an Existentialist.”” — Auberon Waugh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There are moments in life that one certainly believes he is alive.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Every day that we read the news we have the possibility of being confronted with a fact about our world that is wildly different… — Samuel Arbesman Copy Share Image
“The thing about the truth was that it sometimes tore apart the perfect world we forced ourselves into believing existed.” — Nicole Sobon Copy Share Image
“What happens when you don't know the truth but you can't believe the lies, when you can't find a way--through fact or fiction--to give… — Maria Goodin Copy Share Image
“One should not believe too easily in a life which can easily vanish.” — James Salter Copy Share Image
“If you truly believe something you will attempt to live it. Otherwise you don’t really believe it.” — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
“I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.” — Jhumpa Lahiri 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
