“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not… — 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
“if you had no language, then what form did your thoughts take—if you thought at all? Of course you thought—she had never… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“There was no need for words, for there are times when words can only hint at what the heart would wish to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get… — 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
