Quotes by Alec Waugh

"You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person."
— Alec Waugh
"Nothing is more dead and dated than the book which once caused controversy."
— Alec Waugh
"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."
— Alec Waugh
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Alexander Raban Waugh (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981) was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh, uncle of Auberon Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary crit...