Compton Mackenzie famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.
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Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.
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The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.
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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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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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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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Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams
-- Compton Mackenzie
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.
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You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.
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Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'
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During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
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You proved to be worthy of my devotion. Of Death’s...love
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In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
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You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.
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