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Compton Mackenzie Quotes

1883–1972 Scotland

Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, OBE (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the National Party of Scotland along with Hugh MacDiarmid, Cunninghame Graham and John MacCormick.

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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.

Literature in My Time (1933)

There is little to choose morally between beating up a man physically and beating him up mentally.

On Moral Courage (1962)

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.

Vestal Fire (1927)

He was eighty years old now, with a bloom on his cheeks like an autumn pippin and two limpid blue eyes that looked straight into yours and, if you had any reverence at all, made the tears well involuntarily at the sight of such gentle beauty.

The Passionate Elopement (1911)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Compton Mackenzie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.