You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“...how sorry she felt for white people, who couldn't do any of this (sit talking with friends and growing melons) and who… — Alexander Mccall Smith Copy Share Image
It was the same with friendship. Disagreement between friends and spouses, too had to be carefully handled. If the time you spent… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Memories of that which we have lost are curious things - weeks, months, even years may pass without recollection of them and… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And he thought for a moment how stupid our society had become, that its nanny-like concern for risk should prevent one man… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Will you be my friend?” Bertie asked. And then added: “Just for Paris. You don’t have to be my friend forever –… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Everybody has friends they dislike; people who they have slipped into relationships with, people they would not have chosen had they been… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“I am grateful to you for being who you are: for standing up for ladies with large glasses and a bad skin… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“..."Charming people, when not actively shooting one another," a friend had once said, which was so unkind, but, like so many unkind… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She was, he reflected, one of his closest friends, in a rather curious, slightly old-fashioned way.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Her friend who treated her maid badly was not a wicked person. She behaved well towards her family and she had always… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure—the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The new lover, of a few weeks standing, may seem more precious than friends of decades.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“They are a bit small for me, Mma,” she confessed. “I think you were right. But I felt great happiness when I… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Dear friends, he began, there is no timetable for happiness; it moves, I think, according to rules of its own. When I… — 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
