Quotes by : Alexander McCall Smith

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless....

...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.

Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.

Can you forgive her? Can you do that?There was no response.Because if you can start to forgive, then....

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing....

Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than....

The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong.....

It is hard, she thought, it is hard for us to think of people who dislike us because none of us, in our....

Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because....

Moral beauty existed as clearly as any other form of beauty and perhaps that was where we could find....