“And the beautiful are forgiven; no matter how egregious their shortcomings, they are forgiven.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Why, she asked herself, why keep a wound open when forgiveness can close it?” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“But if you do not forgive, and you think all the time about getting even, or punishing somebody who has done you… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She would not allow herself to remember how Note had treated her, and many others too, she suspected. She had forgiven him,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them. Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon us, no matter what our… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness was never easy, but Mma Ramotswe believed in it because she knew that without forgiveness we cluttered our lives with old… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“You have to tell her that you have forgiven what she did to you. You have that duty because we all of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
