Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Compton Mackenzie

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, was an English-born Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the National Party of Scotland along with Hugh MacDiarmid, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and John MacCormick. He was knighted in 1952.

English - Writer | January 17, 1883 - November 30, 1972

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Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

Compton Mackenzie

For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.

Compton Mackenzie

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

Compton Mackenzie

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.

Compton Mackenzie

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

Compton Mackenzie

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

Compton Mackenzie

Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams

Compton Mackenzie

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Compton Mackenzie

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