Top 56 Alexander Smith Love Quotes

#1. Mma Ramotswe decided to go back into her office. There was a curious thing about male conversation that she had noticed - men often ended up poking fun at one another. Women did this only rarely, but men seemed to love insulting one another. It was very strange.

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander Smith Love Quotes #45064
#2. Every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander Smith Love Quotes #94269
#3. It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander Smith Love Quotes #97127
#4. It's easy to be foolish ... It's dead simple, really. All you have to be is human and to allow yourself to do the human things, like fall in love with somebody when you know that there's no point and when you know, too, that it's just going to make you unhappy.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#5. It is because you are generous in spirit; and may I be like that; may I become like you - which unrealistic wish, to become the other, is such a true and revealing symptom of love, its most obvious clue, its unmistakable calling card.

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander Smith Love Quotes #275063
#6. She knew that this man, this mechanic, this fixer of machines with their broken hearts, did indeed love and admire her - was like walking in the sunshine;

Alexander McCall Smith

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#7. And that is why we must answer her hatred with love. I can't say whether it will change her in her heart - it probably won't. But if it makes her feel even just a little bit better about herself, she will be less envious.

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander Smith Love Quotes #398849
#8. And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander Smith Love Quotes #400869
#9. 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 father. When I am dead, I shall miss the smell of Africa

Alexander McCall Smith

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#10. You know something?" he said to Jamie. "I've never believed in God, but I do believe in his love.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#11. It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

Alexander Gordon Smith

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#12. Has it ever occurred to people that love at first sight might be the rule rather than the exception? How many people fall in love gradually rather than on the first occasion they meet the other person?

Alexander McCall Smith

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#13. The turtles and birds who lived on the islands were also very friendly, as they hardly ever saw any humans and were always pleased to have some company.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#14. Why? Why is there a crisis in literature? Because of lies and rottenness. Simplicity and sincerity have been replaced by obsfucation and pretense. Men, of course. They love to create mystery where none exists. It's the way they think.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#15. But some of us cannot see love, she said to herself, even when it is there, right before us, asking us to invite it in.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#16. She had been tied to an incubus, the memory of a love that had been rejected and had had nowhere to go; she had been locked into a dead relationship and now the last dried skin of it had fallen away, like the scab on a wound, and she was free.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#17. Love was a form of blindness that closed the eyes to the most glaring faults.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#18. Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#19. 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?

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander Smith Love Quotes #869633
#20. You cannot make somebody love something. They must have love in their heart first.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#21. That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#22. Late people do not altogether leave us, she thought; they are still with us in memories such as that, wherever we are, no matter what time of day it was or how we were feeling, they were there, still shining the light of their love upon us.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#23. Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

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#24. The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore
A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.

Alexander Smith

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#25. We must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander Smith Love Quotes #1118976
#26. Because love can come, if you believe in it and behave as if it exists. That was the case, too, with free will; with perhaps, fath of any sort; and love was a sort of faith, was it not?

Alexander McCall Smith

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#27. That, said Isabel, is the most painful feature of lost love. you wonder what the other person is doing. Right at this moment. What is he/she doing?

Alexander McCall Smith

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#28. Loving others, she thought, is the good thing we do in our lives.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#29. What a strange,old-fashioned thing to think. Bless you. But what other way was there of saying that you wanted only good for somebody, that you wanted the world to be kind to her, to cherish her?Only old-fashioned words would do for that.

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander Smith Love Quotes #1305446
#30. These men were like leeches; they sucked away at the goodness of a woman's heart until it was dry and all her love had been used up. That took a long time, he knew, because women seemed to have vast reservoirs of goodness in them

Alexander McCall Smith

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#31. He said: What is patriotism but love of the food one ate as a child?

Alexander McCall Smith

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#32. There are so many people who would love to be able to live in peace, but there are so many others who do not want to let them. Mr.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#33. We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

Alexander Smith

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#34. You have each other, thought Isabel.But was that enough? Even when one was in love, it was not really enough just to have the other person - not if one needed stimulation. The company of just one person could be reassuring, could stave off loneliness, but would it be enough for three months?

Alexander McCall Smith

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#35. The unmerited dislike of another made one think less of oneself. We are enlarged by the love of others; we are diminished by their dislike.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#36. There's a difference, I think, between falling in love and knowing it.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#37. Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

Alexander Smith

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#38. 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?

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander Smith Love Quotes #1510749
#39. We all had to say goodbye, sooner or later, to those we love
or they had to say goodbye to us. Those were the only two possibilities that this world allowed. But no matter how much we tried to face up to it, it never became easier.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#40. Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#41. [Love] may bring surprise, joy, despair and, occasionally, perfect happiness.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#42. She had so much love to give - she had always felt that - and now there was somebody to whom she could give this love, and that, she knew, was good; for that is what redeems us, that is what makes our pain and sorrow bearable - this giving of love to others, this sharing of the heart.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#43. That's the curious thing about love, isn't it? It makes very ordinary things seem special. It makes them seem so much more valuable than they really are.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#44. There is plenty of work for love to do.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#45. There are many words for push, take, shove, carry, load, and no words for love, or happiness, or the sounds which birds make in the morning.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#46. When you are with somebody you love the smallest, smallest things can be so important, so amusing because love transforms the world, everything. And was that what had happened?

Alexander McCall Smith

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#47. The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#48. She remembered love, though, and a feeling of warmth. It was like remembering light, or the glow that sometimes persists after a light has gone out.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#49. 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.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#50. The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#51. 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

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander Smith Love Quotes #1746547
#52. I think that the measure of whether a life has been a good one is how much love there has been in that life
love both given and received.

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander Smith Love Quotes #1753696
#53. I may not be saying this everyday. But i want to Thank You for all that you do! I Love You!

Stanley Alexander De Smith

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#54. I am blessed and being blessed is something more than just having something. It is a state of mind in which the good of the world is illuminated, it's understood. It is as if one is vouchsafed a vision of some sort, a vision of love, of 'agape', of the essential value of each and every living thing.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#55. But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander Smith Love Quotes #1823561
#56. Love had transformed the world for me. Transformed it.

Alexander McCall Smith

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