Alec Waugh Quotes

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

Alec Waugh

#2. 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

#3. I'm a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.

Kayla Ewell

#4. I've been guilty of over analyzing & under achieving.

Steve Supple

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

Alec Waugh

#6. 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

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

Alec Waugh

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

Alec Waugh

#9. To the athlete, all things are forgiven

Alec Waugh

#10. Not everything buried is actually dead. For many, the past is alive.

Louise Penny

#11. 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

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

Alec Waugh

#13. Only cheaters prosper.

Howard Tayler

#14. 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

#15. Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?'

Al Yankovic

#16. 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