“He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“To be able to imagine the ohter, and the experience of the other was what wisdome was all about; but nobody talked… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled… — 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
