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
My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest...
Death takes away the commonplace of life.
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.
I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.