16 Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith about Love
- Author Alexander McCall Smith
-
Quote
If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Alexander McCall Smith
-
Quote
She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon us, no matter what our transgressions. It was far more likely that there would be love, falling like rain from above, changing the hearts of the wicked; transforming them
- Tags
- Share
- Author Alexander McCall Smith
-
Quote
He evidently did not care that they were in full view of a cluster of dog-owners walking their dogs. He stopped and took her in his arms, kissing her passionately and urgently.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Alexander McCall Smith
-
Quote
And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when there is wrongdoing, but if you punish you're only punishing yourself. And what's the point of that?
- Tags
- Share
- Author Alexander McCall Smith
-
Quote
A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas the real question that should be put to the two people involved was a very simple one. Are you happy with each other? was the only question that should be asked; to which they both should reply, preferably in unison, Yes.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Alexander McCall Smith
-
Quote
I suppose that's the way affairs come to an end. Somebody grabs a fork and stabs the other in the hand. And that's it
- Tags
- Share
- Author Alexander McCall Smith
-
Quote
She looked down. He had clasped his hands together, his fingers interlaced. It was a gesture, she thought, of unequivocal pleasure--pleasure at hearing what all of us wanted to hear at least occasionally: that there was somebody who liked us, whatever our faults, and liked us sufficiently to say so.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Alexander McCall Smith
-
Quote
we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Alexander McCall Smith
-
Quote
So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what was their own solution?
- Tags
- Share