Quote by Alexander McCall Smith Download Open image ““A nudist? In Edinburgh? Does he realise what parallel we’re on?”” — Alexander McCall Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Richard felt about as conspicuous as a foreskin at a Jewish nudist camp.” — Dylan J Morgan Copy Share Image
“Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“If I had to pick two words to describe Edinburgh, I would tell you that it's majestic and beautiful. Really, really old, but somehow… — L.H. Cosway Copy Share Image
“There scotsmen must have arses like leather,for while he ate I could see naught beneath his kilts but a pair of rather large balls… — Bertrice small Copy Share Image
“It's a very strange nudist camp all round, really, as the men almost all seem to spend their time wearing boxer shorts, lest a… — Dan Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Stephen had never seen a landscape so calculated to reduce the onlooker to utter despair in an instant. “This is one of your kingdoms,… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“So there comes a moment when we turn and look at each other - England and Scotland - and realise we just want different… — David Greig Copy Share Image
“I was thinking in a Scottish brogue, because I'd just heard this guy interviewed on NPR, Lonnie McSomething.” — Patricia Gaffney Copy Share Image
“But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.” — 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
