Alec Waugh Professions : Novelist Born : July 8, 1898 Died : September 3, 1981 Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by Alec Waugh You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. Alec Waugh falling-in-love sight travel 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 wine kind today The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him. Alec Waugh women he-man want 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 wise men ideas London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member. Alec Waugh clubs cities house 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. Alec Waugh desire hands world 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. Alec Waugh future strong moving 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 Alec Waugh hobbies wine needs 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. Alec Waugh support doubt men I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul. Alec Waugh i-am think soul believe Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
