Manners are the basic building blocks of civil soc... -Alexander McCall Smith

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Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Alexander McCall Smith , Writer
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Alexander McCall Smith is a Scottish writer known for his popular book series, including "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" and "The Sunday Philosophy Club." He is acclaimed for his engaging storytelling, rich characterization, and his ability to capture the essence of everyday life in his works. McCall Smith's novels have resonated with readers worldwide and have been widely translated and adapted for television and radio. His literary contributions have made him one of Scotland's most beloved and successful authors.

Alexander McCall Smith Quotes to Explore

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orches...
Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology....
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society....
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others....
The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music....
One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which c...
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pa...
The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari....
The wider your readership, the greater the chances of offending your readers....
I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposin...

Society Quotes to Explore

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy....
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries....
Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership...
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of ...
Australia has an increasingly multicultural society....
It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own sufferi...
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day....
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere....
There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in ...
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society....