“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like… — 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
A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“We need a person whom we can make our little god on this earth, as the old Kgatla saying had it. Whether… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Perhaps they could get married in heaven, if he left it too late. That would certainly be cheaper.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“she imagined what it would be like to live with somebody who had secrets. Instead of a comfortable atmosphere of trust there… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“...that is how marriages take place. If you left it up to men, they would never get there. Nobody would be married.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“But remember, that for every cheating wife in Botswana, there are five hundred and fifty cheating husbands." Mma Makutsi whistled. "That is… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“So what is this love that comes with being married?" ... "Being fond of somebody? Being nice? Wanting them not to go… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“You are a lucky lady to be marrying a man who can fix things. Most husbands just break things.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“He evidently did not care that they were in full view of a cluster of dog-owners walking their dogs. He stopped and… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“He smiled as he imagined the composite Jamie/Isabel, who would play the bassoon, read philosophy, interfere in other people's affairs rather too… — 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
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