Compton Mackenzie Quotes

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

  Compton Mackenzie

  Cat, Comfort, Devotion

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

  Compton Mackenzie

  Anniversary, Humorous, Drinking

  Sir Compton Mackenzie (1950). “Tight Little Island”

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

  Compton Mackenzie

  Women, Maturity, Gentleman

  Literature in My Time (1933) ch. 22

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

  Compton Mackenzie

  Cat, Animal, Mystery

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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

  Cat, Animal, Giving

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

  Compton Mackenzie

  Beer, Two, Doe

  Sir Compton Mackenzie (1950). “Tight Little Island”

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• 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

  Food, Cooking, Pieces

  'Vestal Fire' (1927) bk. 1, ch. 3

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