Alec Waugh Quotes

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

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.

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.

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