The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Season 1 Episode 3

Mma Ramotswe: (to Mma Makutsi) That's because my father left me plenty of cattle. If it weren't for that, I'd be slaving away in an office like everybody else, going nowhere. I didn't mean that you are going nowhere.

Mma Ramotswe: I lost a child myself. A boy. He was born, but he did not live. We think we'll get over the pain, but it never happens.

Mma Ramotswe: Places have echoes. If we are sensitive enough, we might pick up a feeling of what happened there.

Mma Makutsi: I'm having a private business call.
BK: Is it private or business? Make up your mind.
Mma Makutsi: Out! Out!

JLB Matekoni: Americans are very clever people. They can send rockets into space. But science isn't the only thing. There are other things that make the world what it is. Things of the spirit. Americans never notice that, even though they're right under their noses.

Sporty Guy 1: What's in it for us?
Mma Ramotswe: Maybe... just maybe, I'll try to find a couple of girls desperate enough to deal with your crazy chatter.
(Sporty Guy 1 and Sporty Guy 2 laughs as Mma Ramotswe leaves the shop.)
Sporty Guy 1: We don't need two girls! Just one who's big enough for two.

Mma Makutsi: We (she and Mma Ramotswe) were right in the middle of a business conversation.
BK: I'm a serial interruptor. You'll have to get used to it.

Mma Ramotswe: If a wrong-doer is truly sorry for what he has done, the person he's harmed will try to forgive him. I think that's what your son would want.
Mrs. Curtin: The African heart.

Mma Ramotswe: It only takes one person to tell the truth. Just one.

Mma Ramotswe: Doctor Ranta, it is so obvious that you are not telling the truth. You may as well have a neon sign around your neck saying, 'Liar'.

Mma Ramotswe: Use of one's head is the primary qualification of a good detective.