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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. |
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Revision as of 16:32, 20 December 2024
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. He was knighted in the 1952 Birthday Honours List.
Quotes
- 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), ch. 22
- 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), bk. 1, ch. 3
External links
Encyclopedic article on Compton Mackenzie on Wikipedia
