Auberon Waugh Quotes

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• Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ...…
• It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place…
• The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely…
• The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong
• 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…
• Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
• Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in fact…
• 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 which…
• Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure,…
• Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.
• There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if…
• 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, I…
• An unemployed electrician,whom I had been taunting with my reminder of how much richer I was, leaned forward and said:'What are your qualifications? I know…
• I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude…
• Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to…
• The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of…
• In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or…
• Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.
• Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
• Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law

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