The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf Quotes

“Getting through life was just a question of managing our oddness.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf

“Hoxha.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf

“You’d think they’d have something better to do,” she complained. “In fact, send-ing a memorandum about micro-aggression amounts to a micro-aggression, in my view. Certainly sending two copies does. It’s like sending an email in capital letters. That’s a micro-aggression if ever there was one.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf

“The police do nothing. The civic authorities say they are powerless, and the politicians don’t even bother to comment on the issue. Well, I say that we have had enough! And I’ll say it again, just in case the authorities are not listening: we have had enough!” That was a favourite catchphrase of the Moderate Extremists. It was trite, Ulf thought, but it was also highly effective. Most people, he suspected, felt that they had had enough, and would be pleased to hear politicians declare that they shared their feeling. It did not matter too much what they had had enough of—it was the satiety that counted.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf

“Moments of hesitation may occasionally be more morally significant than moments of action. This was the case right now, but Ulf could not quite face going back into the coffee bar. So he did not, and left his conscience to sort out the matter later on, which it might or might not do. One could never tell.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf