Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problem — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute f — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Now constipation was quite a different matter...It would be dreadful for the whole world to know about troubles of that — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed t — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
She watched him take the trumpet from its case and fit the mouthpiece. She watched as he raised it to his lips and then, — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Boys, men," she said. "They're all the same. They think that this [their manhood] is something special and they're all s — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
You should have seen him,” she said. “A real ladies’ man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea h — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
We don't forget...Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries. — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed t — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
I said to him that Zululand sounded fine, but that every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the hear — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow the furniture seemed — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none. — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
...and with it would come that wonderful, unmistakable smell of rain, that smell of dust and water meeting that lingered — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die. I love Africa, which is my mother and my — Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency