Auberon Waugh

Also known as Auberon Augustus Ichabod Waugh

Born: April 21, 1998

Family

Alexander Waughfather Elizabeth Beatrice Chancellormother

Also known as Auberon Augustus Ichabod Waugh

Notable 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.”
— "The Power Urge", essay in The Spectator (15 December 1982); reprinted in Another Voice (1986), p. 92
“Murder does not rank as a scandal, in the way that financial impropriety or (to a lesser extent) sexual misbehaviour might. Murder is more of a misfortune, part of the American way of life. It is considered in bad taste to bring up the subject in conversation.”
— "Way of the World", column in The Daily Telegraph (28 October 1995).
“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.”
— "Way of the World", column in The Daily Telegraph (1 November 1995).
“The price of privilege is eternal vigilance.”
— Will This Do? (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998), ch. 6, p. 94
“Religion was inevitably going to contract into a small nucleus of enthusiasts, and all they've achieved is to change the enthusiasts; the new enthusiasts happen to be the ones who like clapping their hands and looking soppy. They repel me.”
— Interview in Naim Attallah, Singular Encounters (1990), "Auberon Waugh"
“I don't want 'constructive criticism'. I want praise.”
— In The Times Literary Supplement (6 March 2009).

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