Top 22 Makutsi Quotes

#1. Lions walk on four legs," observed Mma Makutsi. "Was this man walking on four legs? That can be a big giveaway, Mma.

Alexander McCall Smith

Makutsi Quotes #178179
#2. Glanced to me. I shrugged. "He always talks like this. You sort of learn to put up with it or turn the volume up on the TV." "As you can see, his disrespect for me, a King of Cats, is also a credit to your house," said Tybalt, not missing a beat.

Seanan McGuire

Makutsi Quotes #284081
#3. He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known." "That is very well known," agreed Mma Ramotswe. "Look at Adam. Look how he fell for Eve." "Just because she had no clothes on, he fell for her," said Mma Makutsi. "That sometimes helps," said Mma Ramotswe.

Alexander McCall Smith

Makutsi Quotes #392732
#4. Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

Mahatma Gandhi

Makutsi Quotes #417326
#5. But remember, that for every cheating wife in Botswana, there are five hundred and fifty cheating husbands."
Mma Makutsi whistled. "That is an amazing figure," she said. "Where did you read that?"
"Nowhere," chuckled Mma Ramotswe. "I made it up. But that doesn't stop it from being true.

Alexander McCall Smith

Makutsi Quotes #459475
#6. I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.

Crystal Chappell

Makutsi Quotes #490917
#7. As they left the shop, Mma Ramotswe made amends and told Mma Makutsi that she really thought the blue shoes very beautiful. There was no point in disapproving of a purchase once the deed had been done.

Alexander McCall Smith

Makutsi Quotes #559300
#8. I went to work in a woman's home in Los Angeles as a mother's helper. I worked there about two years. Went to school with all rich kids. I was the only poor kid in the school, and I was already insecure. But my voice saved me because I sang in school, and I was real popular because of my voice.

Georgia Holt

Makutsi Quotes #656354
#9. It is so easy to thank people," said Mma Ramotswe, passing the letter over to Mma Makutsi, "and most people don't bother to do it. They don't thank the person who does something for them. They just take it for granted.

Alexander McCall Smith

Makutsi Quotes #781115
#10. Yes, but not in chairs that don't belong to us," countered Mma Makutsi. "That's the trouble with this country, Mma - there are too many people sitting down in other people's chairs.

Alexander McCall Smith

Makutsi Quotes #1021790
#11. Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

Dale Archer

Makutsi Quotes #1041393
#12. Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you to point out that they are wrong, even when they are. That is the way things are, Mma
it just is.

Alexander McCall Smith

Makutsi Quotes #1070601
#13. I kept it a secret, which is the only way to maintain ownership of something.

Meg Howrey

Makutsi Quotes #1217859
#14. As I said, many. They are passing even now. An endless parade of them. They smile, they bow, a child wags his tongue like a dog's tail. Some of them speak. Do you know the poet George Seferis?

Stephen King

Makutsi Quotes #1262160
#15. Mma Makutsi had overheard this remark and had been so cross that her glasses misted over; that was always a bad sign, Mma Ramotswe knew.

Alexander McCall Smith

Makutsi Quotes #1280312
#16. The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.

Tom Brokaw

Makutsi Quotes #1281508
#17. No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.

Kapil Dev

Makutsi Quotes #1395480
#18. Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

Makutsi Quotes #1472940
#19. Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever.

Nelson Mandela

Makutsi Quotes #1657452
#20. Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.

Edith Wharton

Makutsi Quotes #1678074
#21. That is important," said Mma Makutsi from behind her desk. "One does not want a lady who talks too much.

Alexander McCall Smith

Makutsi Quotes #1794171
#22. I think that as actresses - and I've definitely gone through this in a really bizarre way, because I worked so much and was really lucky with the roles that I got when I was younger - I remember hearing the older actors saying, "It gets tough," and thinking, "Really? I can't imagine."

Winona Ryder

Makutsi Quotes #1813523

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