Compton Mackenzie

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

Quotes about Compton Mackenzie

• He is a master of a particularly fascinating style, at once smooth and various, which gives the quality of poetry to his explication of ordinary things. He has, moreover, some creative power.
  • Gerald Gould, The English Novel of To-day. John Castle. 1924. p. 42. ISBN 0836956974. 

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Compton Mackenzie on Wikipedia