16 Quotes by Alec Waugh

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

To the athlete, all things are forgiven

In the last analysis the great patriots were those who identified personal ambition with the welfare of their country. The traitor, as often as not, was one who, failing to recognize where the true interests of his country lay, identified his personal ambition with the less noble aspirations of his people.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.