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
The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.
An old novel has a history of its own.
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing....
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.
Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Trees are your best antiques