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
A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.
In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.
In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.