Best 11 quotes of Alec Waugh on MyQuotes

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 success.

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

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 us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

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

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

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 us.

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.

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, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time

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

Nothing is more dead and dated than the book which once caused controversy.

To the athlete, all things are forgiven