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1. "Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them." ~ Auberon Waugh
2. "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
3. "Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in fact he is not an African at all. He is quite obviously Chinese. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it makes those who persist in seeing him as a great African statesman look rather foolish." ~ Auberon Waugh
4. "...judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one." ~ Auberon Waugh
5. "There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind." ~ Auberon Waugh
6. "At the Serima Mission, in Victoria Province, I am shown around by an enchantingly pretty African nun called Sister Balbina...She cannot be more than 25, and has the most delightful figure. How poignant that she should have dedicated her life in this way.When we come to the bell tower, I ask her to climb up the ladder in front of me.It was rather a caddish request, I suppose, but I had often wondered. Black petticoats and pink knickers. To think I had to come all this way to find out." ~ Auberon Waugh
7. "It is just a lonely certainty that we are right and everybody else wrong, which makes it worthwhile for us busy-bodies to go on making a nuisance of ourselves. Our job is to keep both the simple Philistine and the greedy rich in their places, to prevent them, in their stupidity and avarice, from destroying everything that is left." ~ Auberon Waugh
8. "My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour." ~ Auberon Waugh
9. "I am much bigger than the average chicken, and furthermore I was armed with a rolling pin and kitchen knife. As a matter of fact I have always had the greatest contempt for chickens. They are so stupid that they probably don't even notice the difference when they die, but I must admit that this particular chicken put up a very good fight." ~ Auberon Waugh
10. "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
11. "...the modern State's greatest single instrument of oppression, its murderous tax on drink...accounts for nearly all the miseries besetting our once-merry land; football hooliganism, colour prejudice, industrial unrest, cynicism about politicians; the list is endless." ~ Auberon Waugh
12. "Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie." ~ Auberon Waugh
13. "At any rate it seems unlikely that there is any truth in the rumour as I have just this moment invented it." ~ Auberon Waugh
14. "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
15. "I try to believe everything I read in the newspapers, but I had difficulty with last week's account of the London vagrant who was found, after death, to be carrying £1,500 in small change in his socks.My reason for doubting the story is that I, too, like to carry small change in my socks, but I have found that with more that £15 or £20 worth it becomes impossible to walk." ~ Auberon Waugh
16. "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
17. "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." ~ Auberon Waugh
18. "The rest of us learned the simple lesson - invaluable in a bureaucratic society - that there is no moral or practical obligation to tell the truth when filling in forms." ~ Auberon Waugh
19. "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
20. "Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore." ~ Auberon Waugh

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