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

“It has long been a characteristic of 'progressives' in power that they are prepared to countenance almost any aberration on the progressive side but crack down like grand inquisitors on the slightest expression of conservative deviation.”
— "More Catholic than the Pope", Another Voice, The Spectator, 7 August 1976
“I am convinced that intelligent educated and literate men in Britain are neither left-wing or right-wing, but are bored by politics and regard all politicians with scorn. That is my political creed, so far as I have one.”
— 'Introduction and Guide' to Another Voice (1986), p. 14
“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).
“There is no such thing as a normal human being. Nobody looks so eccentric as the man who is trying to look normal.”
— "Way of the World", column in The Daily Telegraph (6 November 1995).
“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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