“Do I shock you? I think I do. That’s the problem these days – nobody speaks their mind. No, don’t smile. They… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“. . . there was something that Isabel had said that always stuck in his mind. Remember what you have and the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“[...]there was always a part of the human mind that was prepared to entertain such notions, particularly at night, in the world… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“...as she drove along this road with all its memories, she put out of her mind the things that had been worrying… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“...the thought crossed her mind that a bed was really a very strange thing-a human nest, really, where our human fragility made… — 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
“The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most people, when it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Psychology, she thought; that is what they called it these days, but in her view it was something much older than that.… — 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
