Love Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith

“There's a difference, I think, between falling in love and knowing it.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

— Alexander McCall Smith

There is plenty of work for love to do.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Love had transformed the world for me. Transformed it.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“The unmerited dislike of another made one think less of oneself. We are enlarged by the love of others; we are diminished…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“And food made with love, she thought, tasted better-everybody knew that. It just did.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

— Alexander McCall Smith

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“I think that the measure of whether a life has been a good one is how much love there has been in…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“[Love] may bring surprise, joy, despair and, occasionally, perfect happiness.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“That, said Isabel, is the most painful feature of lost love. you wonder what the other person is doing. Right at this…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“These men were like leeches; they sucked away at the goodness of a woman's heart until it was dry and all her…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“She had so much love to give - she had always felt that - and now there was somebody to whom she…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“So what is this love that comes with being married?" ... "Being fond of somebody? Being nice? Wanting them not to go…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“It is because you are generous in spirit; and may I be like that; may I become like you—which unrealistic wish, to…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“It's easy to be foolish... It's dead simple, really. All you have to be is human and to allow yourself to do…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“What a strange,old-fashioned thing to think. Bless you. But what other way was there of saying that you wanted only good for…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“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

“Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Out in Saxe-Coburg Street she stood still for a moment and looked at the gardens. He kissed me, she thought. He made…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“..what moved me was that I had found something I didn't think could exist. And that thing - the thing that I…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Many waters cannot quench love: the anthem's setting remained in her ears, repeating itself; a tune so powerful that it might gird…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Love was like rain; there could be periods of drought when it seemed that love would never return, would never make its…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“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

“Love is nothing out of the ordinary, even if we think it is; even if we idealise it, celebrate it in poetry,…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“We can be confident in our dealings with the world when what the world sees is the outer person, with all the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“It's easy to be foolish... It's dead simple, really. All you have to be is human and to allow yourself to do…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“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

“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

“That's the curious thing about love, isn't it? It makes very ordinary things seem special. It makes them seem so much more…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“You cannot make somebody love something. They must have love in their heart first.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“The sharing of a book is a statement—a message of affection that is also an act of self-revelation. Join my club, it…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“When you are with somebody you love the smallest, smallest things can be so important, so amusing because love transforms the world,…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“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

“She had been tied to an incubus, the memory of a love that had been rejected and had had nowhere to go;…

— Alexander McCall Smith