It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from u…

- Alec Waugh

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of …

- Alec Waugh

You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

- Alec Waugh

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

- Alec Waugh

We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, b…

- Alec Waugh

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns …

- Alec Waugh

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.

- Alec Waugh

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.

- Alec Waugh

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

- Alec Waugh