Auberon Waugh
Auberon Waugh
Auberon Alexander Waughwas an English journalist, and eldest son of Evelyn Waugh. He was widely known by his nickname Bron...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth17 November 1939
thinking self feelings
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 is hard to distinguish from mass murder if they think they can get away with it...
gratifying image journalist pigs
We journalists like to think we are the new crusaders-it's much more gratifying than the image of the journalist pigs evoked by Spitting Image puppets.
holiday law suffering
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 suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.
people world sacred
There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.
liars being-ignored forgiving
Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.
men fists males
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 don't know whether this tells us more about the contemporary male or about Glenda Jackson.
years careers political
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 unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.
people enemy hunts
Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
spring peaceful mind
There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.
two-sides insulting loathing
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 right.
naked might homosexual
Anyone might become homosexual after seeing Glenda Jackson naked.
eton soap reminders
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 exactly what your qualifications are.You bent over in the shower to pick up some soap at Eton and Harrow, like all the rest of them.
simple london typical
Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.
real people drug
History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.