Your Inner Hedgehog Quotes

“I am a fortunate man, and if you are fortunate in this life, you should take pleasure in the good fortune of others. Because we must love one another – for all our faults. We must love one another whatever our station in life, and we must try to make the lives of others more bearable, if we are in a position to do so.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Your Inner Hedgehog

“She’s an expert on the subjunctive, as I think you may know.’ This brought a sharp reaction from Unterholzer. He was the expert on the subjunctive, and it was intolerable that von Igelfeld should go around picking up–for that was what it amounted to–unauthorised experts on the subjunctive, just because they expressed a–misguided–enthusiasm for his work.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Your Inner Hedgehog

“Another Huber, you see, Herr Uber-Huber. Bavaria’s teeming with people of your name.’ ‘Hubers, yes,’ said Herr Uber-Huber. ‘But not so many Uber-Hubers, I think.’ ‘An important distinction, that,’ said the Rector. ‘Tell me, Herr Uber-Huber–are there any Unter-Hubers, as far as you know?’ Herr Uber-Huber shook his head. ‘I would say that Huber is the equivalent of Unter-Huber.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Your Inner Hedgehog

“Why the von Igelfeld family should have adopted the hedgehog, both as their name and their symbol, is uncertain. Family tradition has it that they once lived in close proximity to a field renowned for its hedgehogs, but where this field was, and even if it ever existed, is far from clear. Another tradition has it that a von Igelfeld ancestor was once saved by a hedgehog, although how a hedgehog might be capable of saving anybody has never been revealed. Dogs have saved the lives of humans, as have horses, and even, famously, Capitoline geese, but never have hedgehogs been credited with such service to humanity.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Your Inner Hedgehog

“That was what academic freedom was all about, Herr Huber thought. It was the freedom to do what one liked and not be challenged by people lower down the pecking order who did not like what you did.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Your Inner Hedgehog: A Professor Dr von Igelfeld Entertainment