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
people insulted stills
Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.
law people rubbish
Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law
terrible bores
Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
evil long trying
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.
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.
naked might homosexual
Anyone might become homosexual after seeing Glenda Jackson naked.
emotional feelings purpose
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 help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.
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...
people enemy hunts
Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
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.
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.
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.
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.