Humour Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.”

— 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 more love.…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“We never realise how transparent we are.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“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