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
A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life
Books are a finer world within the world.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.