Quotes by : Alexander McCall Smith

Africa was full of people in need of help and there had to be a limit. You simply could not help everybody;....

It was hard to disappear completely in Botswana, where there were fewer than two million people and where....

It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and....

For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving political....

Out in Saxe-Coburg Street she stood still for a moment and looked at the gardens. He kissed me, she thought.....

The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes....

...the real poison within families is not the poison that you put in your food, but the poison that grows....

Perhaps trust had to be accompanied by a measure of common sense, and a hefty dose of realism about human....

That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses....

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