Compton Mackenzie Quotes

#1. I don't believe in past,I don't believe in future,I just believe in present.

Abhishek Chaudhary

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

Compton Mackenzie

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

Compton Mackenzie

#4. Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

Dianne Feinstein

#5. If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

Lincoln Steffens

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

Compton Mackenzie

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

Compton Mackenzie

#8. 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

#9. 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.

Compton Mackenzie

#10. My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.

Brian Dennehy

#11. Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

Nicholas Meyer

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

Compton Mackenzie

#13. 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.

Compton Mackenzie

#14. I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#15. I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.

Don DeLillo

#16. 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.

Compton Mackenzie

#17. 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

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

Compton Mackenzie

#19. A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.

Anatoly Rybakov