Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“a word, as often happens, can be like a musical worm in the mind and invite repetition. But” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“...the thought crossed her mind that a bed was really a very strange thing-a human nest, really, where our human fragility made… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Psychology, she thought; that is what they called it these days, but in her view it was something much older than that.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most people, when it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“[...]there was always a part of the human mind that was prepared to entertain such notions, particularly at night, in the world… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“. . . there was something that Isabel had said that always stuck in his mind. Remember what you have and the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“I am blessed and being blessed is something more than just having something. It is a state of mind in which the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Do I shock you? I think I do. That’s the problem these days – nobody speaks their mind. No, don’t smile. They… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“...as she drove along this road with all its memories, she put out of her mind the things that had been worrying… — 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
![“[...]there was always a part of the human mind that was prepared to entertain such notions, particularly at night, in the world of shadows, when there were sounds that one could not understand and when each one of us was in some sense alone.” quote by Alexander McCall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6f8/alexander-mccall-smith-372_human-mind_there-was-always-a-part-of-the-human-min_536203.jpg)
