“She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“ Charity begins at home. Was that a narrow, selfish adage or was it simply an inescapable, bedrock fact of life in… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“It had always struck her as wrong that we should judge ourselves-or, more usually, others-by single acts, as if a single snapshot… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“good things that we have in life are on temporary loan, at best, and can be taken away from us in an… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“...thinking about somebody every day of his life... oh yes, he said to himself. Oh yes, you do. You think about somebody.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“These days people seemed to suggest that you should talk about everything, even those things that people never talked about in the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“In bed that night, in the darkness, with the illuminated dial of her alarm clock glowing from the bedside table, she asked… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known.” “That is very well… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“It is because you are generous in spirit; and may I be like that; may I become like you—which unrealistic wish, to become the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni,” she asked, “do you think that our souls grow as we get older?” He did not answer immediately, but when he did,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
