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

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

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

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.

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

To the athlete, all things are forgiven.

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.