Quotes by : Alexander McCall Smith

We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's....

To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way.

Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of....

Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.

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

No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent....

He will be a small man inside," said Mma Ramotswe. "He will feel small and unimportant. That is why he....

That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations.....