Compton Mackenzie

thumb| 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 0836956974 https://books.google.com/books?id=O1kyvwEACAAJ&pg=PA42 42 External links Category:1883 births Category:1972 deaths Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:Spies Category:Novelists from Scotland Category:Catholics from Scotland Category:Politicians from Scotland