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… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
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… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is so little time for the discovery of all that we want to know about things that really interest us.We cannot afford to… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him. — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul. — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front.… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
