Quotes from Alec Waugh

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.

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

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.

in a crisis a man learnt what was real to him and what was unreal; that he became himself, choosing what he really needed.

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.

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.

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.

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

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.