Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 47

For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving political offence: German orchestras, of course, used to be careful about playing Wagner abroad, at least in some countries, choosing instead German composers who were somewhat more ... apologetic.
Alexander McCall Smith
Now constipation was quite a different matter...It would be dreadful for the whole world to know about troubles of that nature. She felt terribly sorry for people who suffered from constipation, and she knew that there were many who did. There were probably enough of them for a political party - with a chance of government perhaps - but what would such a party do if it was in power? Nothing, she imagined. It would try to pass legislation, but would fail." (p, 195)
Alexander McCall Smith
Has anyone sen Mr Snark " "I saw him in the tunnel about 15 minutes ago." "Oh no " wailed Dr Ferman "he will have been atomised." "Oh dear" muttered an MP. "Bye-election.
Alexander McCall Smith
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
Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.
Doris Lessing
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
Doris Lessing
A life without a vision is like a kite let loose; it is directed by the forces that be, never giving even the slightest of resistance to life's pressures, eventually ending up far away from home (that comfortable place).
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
There are many things that you can avoid by just knowing something. Knowledge of self is the most notable knowledge I pursue. By knowing myself, I avoided dead dreams and a meaningless life.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.
Alexandra Fuller
He who disagrees with you could be correct whilst he who cheers you on could be making a mistake. Ponder.
Mufti Ismail Menk
We tell our stories differently, don't we, you and I?
Paula Hawkins
The most reliable friend you have is your shadow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.
Doris Lessing
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
Alexander McCall Smith
Love knows the way because love is the way.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You only need four words to spell the greatest word in the universe: L.O.V.E.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you blame gravity for falling in love, even God has the right to laugh at you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Diamonds are a girl's best friend until love introduces her to her soulmate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What you do for others today you have done for yourself tomorrow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Time stops when you are in love, even as you age.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Men like to borrow kisses because they know they will have to pay them back.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the only criminal who, after stealing your heart, convinces you to celebrate her.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the luckiest tenant in the world, living in the hearts of men and women rent free.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If love was a sin, God Himself would be in the hottest part of Hell.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love enters your heart a spark and exists your soul a flame.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Before letting someone hold your heart in their hands, make sure their hands are clean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A kiss is the only object you can throw at someone without being held criminally responsible.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A kiss is the only thing you can throw at someone without being held criminally responsible.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The best chapters in your life story are written by love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If your heart truly stops when she looks at you, how come you are still alive?
Matshona Dhliwayo
The path to marital bliss is to begin each day with a kiss.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Women are the best thieves you will ever meet; they steal your heart and your last name, but never get to spend the night in jail.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The only time I hold my wife's hand tightly is when my wallet is in her other hand.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want the most beautiful fish in the sea, make sure you have the most appealing bait.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be calm on your wedding day; she won’t kill you in front of a hundred people, no matter what you've done.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is a hook; the moment a man swallows it, a woman knows she has him forever.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Money can't buy love, except on Valentine’s Day.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A kiss is the easiest thing to throw at someone because its weight is love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When love arrests your heart, pray she sentences it for eternity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The easiest way to remember your future wife’s birthday is to marry her on Super Bowl Sunday.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Never fight for a girl; while pounding each other, someone is already making plans to whisk her away.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The best couples share the load, divide the grief, and add to the peace, thereby multiplying joy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Falling in love with someone is intentional, even if it was their looks that tripped you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
They gave me a thousand reasons to leave you, but I found a thousand and one reasons to be with you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There is nothing wrong with being a puppet if love is the one pulling the strings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love sets you free the moment it arrests you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the final chapter of your life story is written by love, you are guaranteed a happy ending.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to be happy, love. If you want to be happier, love some more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love came, it saw, and it conquered me.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The laws of gravity work everywhere except in the heart and the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo