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
My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest...
Death takes away the commonplace of life.
In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
Books are a finer world within the world.
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.
God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.
Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.