Compton Mackenzie quotes

“For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.”
-- Compton Mackenzie

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“Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.”
-- Compton Mackenzie

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

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“The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.”
-- Compton Mackenzie

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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

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

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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

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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

Source : Literature in My Time (1933) ch. 22

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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

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

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“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”

“I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.”

“Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.”

Source : Jeramey Kraatz, Adam Rex, Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson, Tim Green (2012). “Class Acts Kids' Ebook Sampler”, p.55, Harper Collins

“You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.”

“Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'”

Source : ADONIRAM JUDSON (1854). “RECORDS OF THE LIFE, CHARACTER, AND ACHIEVEMENTS”, p.96

“During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.”

“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.”

“You proved to be worthy of my devotion. Of Death’s...love”

“In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.”

“You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.”