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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

- Alec Waugh

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

- 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