14 Quotes by Compton Mackenzie

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

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

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.

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.

Alors, ma passion n'a pas d'échos en lui. Pour lui mon tragique amour n'est rien qu'un blasphème anormal. Oh, mon Carlo, mon Carlo, et toi, tu étais mon sang, ma chair! Comme je souffre! Grand dieu, comme je souffre!

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.

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.

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

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