Auberon Waugh

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed,…

— Auberon Waugh

“We had to fill in forms which asked us whether we had ever been convicted of any crime. I hesitated about this.…

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The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

— Auberon Waugh

“People enter politics or the Civil Service out of a desire to exert power and influence events; this, I maintain, is an…

— Auberon Waugh

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They…

— Auberon Waugh

In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to…

— Auberon Waugh

“My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate…

— Auberon Waugh

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the…

— Auberon Waugh

“...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;…

— Auberon Waugh

There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together…

— Auberon Waugh

“Rather to my surprise, I found myself genuinely indignant at the suggestion that murder was to be reintroduced as a means of…

— Auberon Waugh

“It is just a lonely certainty that we are right and everybody else wrong, which makes it worthwhile for us busy-bodies to…

— Auberon Waugh

When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists…

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“Listening to the Gospel on Palm Sunday, it struck me that many people criticise Pontius Pilate for his role in the affair…

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Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu…

— Auberon Waugh

Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.

— Auberon Waugh

“It is impossible to be angry for very long with a man who wears a wig.”

— Auberon Waugh

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

— Auberon Waugh

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

— Auberon Waugh

An unemployed electrician,whom I had been taunting with my reminder of how much richer I was, leaned forward and said:'What are your…

— Auberon Waugh

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real…

— Auberon Waugh

“Whatever happens, I must be back in Somerset by Dec 1 when Mrs Shirley Williams comes to address a rally of the…

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“There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb…

— Auberon Waugh

Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of…

— Auberon Waugh

I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of…

— Auberon Waugh