Alexander Mccall Smith Quotes

Alexander Mccall Smith Quote of the day

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

People don’t talk about mercy very much these days—it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary

…the world was a vale of tears—it always had been.

Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare.

It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to—or you ignored at your peril.

There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.

That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time

And the memory made her humble

What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the greatest right. We were tenants of this earth—nothing more.

…there is faith and faith. One form of faith is actual practice—the rituals and so on—the other form of faith involves actually believing in it.

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.

Tolerance was like one of those soothing creams—it drew out inflammation, it did away with the pain.

I shall go and sit under a tree…. Which tree, Mma?... Oh, there are many trees in this life, she said. It does not matter which tree you choose, as long as you choose the right one.