Top 11 Compton Mackenzie Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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#3. One is so apt nowadays to regard even one's own motives and actions during the War with a contemptuous cynicism that it is as well to remind oneself of emotions which were profoundly and sincerely felt.

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#4. It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with the sublime eccentricity of the natural scene. In Sirene he lives.

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

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#6. 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 if left too long beneath its influence.

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#7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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