Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith
Sir Alexander Lockwood Smith KNZMis the current High Commissioner of New Zealand to the United Kingdom and a former New Zealand politician who served as the 28th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2008 to 2013. Smith is a member of the New Zealand National Party and served as a Member of Parliamentfrom 1984 until his retirement to pursue diplomatic roles in 2013. He represented first the Kaipara electorate and then Rodney, and has held a number of Cabinet...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 August 1948
Alexander Smith quotes about
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.
Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.
Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.
Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.