Alec Waugh Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
July 8, 1898 – September, 3, 1981.

Alexander Raban "Alec" Waugh (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981), was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher. His first wife was Barbara Jacobs (daughter of the writer William Wymark Jacobs), his second wife was Joan Chirnside and his third wife was Virginia Sorenson, author of the Newbery Medal–winning Miracles on Maple Hill.

Also known as Writer

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
- Today
- Wine
- Ancient
London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.

Alec Waugh
- City
- London
- Clubs

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
- Time
- May
- Wine
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
- May
- Success
- Desires
The first duty of wine is to be red. The second is to be a Burgundy.

Alec Waugh
- Red
- Wine
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
- Life
- Strong
- Move
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
- World
- Live
- Nature
The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him.

Alec Waugh
- She
- Man
- Woman

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
- Time
- Desire
- Heaven
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

Alec Waugh
- Fall
- Person
- Place
I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.

Alec Waugh
- Believe
- Soul