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.
Sir Compton Mackenzie Quotes
Prostitution. Selling one’s body to keep one’s soul...one might say of most modern marriages that they were selling one’s soul to keep one’s body.
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| Birth: | 17th January, 1883 |
| Death: | 30th November, 1972 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Actor, Broadcaster, Political Analyst, Writer |
About
Sir Compton Mackenzie was a prolific writer of fiction, biography, histories and memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the Scottish National Party.
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