The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party Quotes

“--a drive in the country, an expedition to a shoe shop a quiet cup of tea under a cloudless sky; each of us had something that made it easier to continue in a world that sometimes, just sometimes, was not as we might wish it to be.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“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.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“...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. - Precious Ramotswe”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“You cannot make somebody love something. They must have love in their heart first.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“As a girl she had imagined the Milky Way was the curtain of heaven, a notion she had been sorry to abandon as she had grown up. But she would not abandon a belief in heaven itself, wherever that may be, because she felt that if she gave that up then there would be very little left. Heaven may not turn out to be the place of her imagining, she conceded--the place envisaged in the old Botswana stories, a place inhabited by gentle white cattle, with sweet breath--but it would surely be something not too unlike that, at least in the way it felt; a place where late people would be give all that they had lacked on this earth--a place of love for those who had not been loved, a place where those who had had nothing would find they had everything the human heart could desire.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“It is hard, she thought, it is hard for us to think of people who dislike us because none of us, in our heart, believes that we deserve the hatred of others.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“You cannot divide a child's heart in two" she had observed to Mma Makutsi, "and yet that is what some people wish to do. A child has only one heart."

"And the rest of us?" Mma Makutsi had asked. "Do we not have one heart too?"

Mma Ramotswe nodded. "Yes, we have only one heart, but as you grow older you heart grows bigger. A child loves only one or two things; we love so many things."

"Such as?"

Mma Ramotswe smiled. "Botswana. Rain. Cattle. Friends. Our children. Our late relatives. The smell of woodsmoke in the morning. Red bush tea...”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“...each of us needed to find just the right way to take our mind off our problems, and it did not matter what that was--a drive in the country, an expedition to a shoe shop, a quiet cup of tea under a cloudless sky; each of us had something that made it easier to continue in a world that sometimes, just sometimes, was not as we might wish it to be.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“those who have a great deal to complain about are so often silent in their suffering, while those who have little to be dissatisfied with are frequently highly vocal about it.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“There are many people who are frightened of something or other, Mma," she said. "Even here in Botswana there are people who are frightened."

They had looked at each other without saying anything. Each knew what the other meant; each knew that there were things that people preferred not to acknowledge not to admit, lest the admission encourage that which needed no encouragement.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“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.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“Words can make big things little, you know.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“So it was perfectly possible that there were men who liked shopping, men who understood exactly what it was all about, but Mma Ramotwe had yet to meet such a man. Maybe they existed elsewhere - in France, perhaps - but they did not seem to be much in evidence in Botswana.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“There are lies you tell with your lips and lies you don't need your lips for. And once people start telling lies, then they become like spiders who weave their web about themselves. They become stuck-caught by the lies all about them. And then they can't get out of the web, no matter how hard they try.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“In her experience, the places one set off for were usually still there no matter when one arrived; it would be different, naturally enough, if towns, villages, houses moved—then one might have a real reason to hurry—but they did not.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“There were always such dwellings--the abode of the cook or the man who tended the yard, or the woman who did the washing and ironing; so normal and unexceptionable as to attract no attention, the places where lives were led in the shadow of the employer in the larger house. And the cause, Mma Ramotswe knew from long experience, of deep resentments and, on occasion, murderous hatreds. Those flowed from exploitation and bad treatment--the things that people would do to one another with utter predictability and inevitability unless those in authority made it impossible and laid down conditions of employment. She had seen shocking things in the course of her work, even here in Botswana, a good country where things were well run and people had rights; human nature, of course, would find its way round the best of rules and regulations.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

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― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“We cannot let wicked people spoil our lives for us, can we?”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“But it was a mistake to go through life trying to interfere in things that were beyond your control, or which were going to happen anyway, no matter what you do. A certain amount of acceptance -which wasn’t the same thing as cowardice, or indifference -was necessary or you would spend your life burning up with annoyance and rage.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

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― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“The more you listen, the more you learn.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“...all those things that sound so right were often just poetry, really—the gravy we put on reality to make it taste a bit better.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“I think it is time that I put the kettle on,”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (Enhanced Edition): A No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel (12)

“If efficiency were the only value in this life, then we would be content to eat bland but nutritious food every day--and the same food at that. That would keep us alive, but it would make for very dull mealtimes.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“If people have ghosts, then why shouldn't other things have them? What makes us so special that only we can have ghosts?”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

“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, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party