You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to… — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal. — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism… — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like… — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“He’s such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.” — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.” — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with the sublime… — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. — Compton Mackenzie Copy Share Image
