Auberon Waugh
Auberon Waugh (November 17, 1939 – January 16, 2001) was an English author and journalist, son of Evelyn Waugh.
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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)
- I don't want 'constructive criticism'. I want praise.
- Cited in Times Literary Supplement, 6 March 2009.
