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

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

— 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

“As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism…

— Compton Mackenzie

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

— Compton Mackenzie

“He’s such an extraordinarily brilliant person that it would be terrible if he let himself do nothing in the end.”

— Compton Mackenzie

“Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.”

— Compton Mackenzie

“It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with…

— Compton Mackenzie

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

— Compton Mackenzie