Auberon Waugh Quotes

• 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.

  Auberon Waugh

  Emotional, Feelings, Overcoming

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• 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.

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  Holiday, Law, Suffering

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• En general, hoy en día los mejores se dedican al periodismo, los segundos a los negocios, los peores a la política y los peores a la abogacía.

  Auberon Waugh

  Law, People, Rubbish

  Auberon Waugh, Anna Galli-Pahlavi (1985). “The diaries of Auberon Waugh, 1976-1985: a turbulent decade”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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• Hay innumerables cosas horribles sucediendo en todo el mundo y gente horrible prosperando, pero nunca debemos permitir que perturben nuestra ecuanimidad o nos desvíen de nuestro sagrado deber de sabotearlas y molestarlas siempre que sea posible.

  Auberon Waugh

  People, World, Sacred

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• 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, or criminally motivated, or mad.

  Auberon Waugh

  Insecure, Mad, Political

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• 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 funny.

  Auberon Waugh

  Creer, Pensar, Gente

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• Los políticos pueden perdonar casi cualquier abuso; pueden perdonar la subversión, la revolución, que se les contradiga, que se les acuse de mentirosos, incluso que se les ridiculice, pero nunca podrán perdonar que se les ignore.

  Auberon Waugh

  Liars, Being Ignored, Abuse

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• 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.

  Auberon Waugh

  Years, Careers, Political

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• 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.

  Auberon Waugh

  Talking, Wish, Purpose

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• Hay muchos galeses que son taciturnos, veraces, bien formados, abiertos de mente, guapos y pacíficos, aunque no le venga a la mente inmediatamente ningún individuo en particular.

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  Spring, Peaceful, Mind

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• 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.

  Auberon Waugh

  Men, Males, Fists

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

  Auberon Waugh

  People, Enemy, Hunts

  Auberon Waugh (1991). “Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography”, Vintage

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• Anyone might become homosexual after seeing Glenda Jackson naked.

  Auberon Waugh

  Naked, Might, Homosexual

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• En su búsqueda de poder y autoimportancia, para compensar cualquier sentimiento de inadecuación social o inseguridad sexual, ellos (los políticos) están dispuestos a perpetrar algo que es difícil de distinguir de un asesinato en masa si creen que pueden salirse con la suya.

  Auberon Waugh

  Pensamiento, Yo, Sentimientos

  Auberon Waugh (1991). “Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography”, Vintage

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• En Inglaterra tenemos una curiosa institución llamada Iglesia de Inglaterra. Su fuerza siempre ha residido en el hecho de que en cualquier cuestión moral o política puede producir una divergencia de opiniones tan amplia que nadie -desde el Papa hasta Mao Tse-tung- puede decir con seguridad que no es anglicano. Su punto débil es que nadie le presta mucha atención y muy poca gente asiste a sus funciones.

  Auberon Waugh

  Temas, Personas, Política

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• 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.

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  Eton, Soap, Bent

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• 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.

  Auberon Waugh

  Two Sides, Insulting, Loathing

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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 ... 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.

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  Long, Evil, Trying

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

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  Simple, Typical, London

  Auberon Waugh, Anna Galli-Pahlavi (1985). “The diaries of Auberon Waugh, 1976-1985: a turbulent decade”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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

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  Real, Gente, Droga

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• 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 any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?

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  Suicide, Boys, Hands

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• La principal objeción a matar personas como castigo...es que matar personas está mal

  Auberon Waugh

  Punishment, People, Killing

  Auberon Waugh (1986). “Another Voice: An Alternative Anatomy of Britain”

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• Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.

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  People, Comeback, Insulted

  Auberon Waugh (1991). “Will this do?: the first fifty years of Auberon Waugh : an autobiography”, Vintage

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• 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 to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.

  Auberon Waugh

  Dog, Attitude, Gay

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• Ahora que Mandela ha salido de la cárcel todos podemos admitir lo que ha sido evidente, que no es un miembro de la tribu Tembu, de hecho no es africano en absoluto. Es evidente que es chino. No hay nada malo en ello, por supuesto, pero hace que los que persisten en verlo como un gran estadista africano parezcan bastante tontos.

  Auberon Waugh

  Chinese, Looks, Facts

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