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 man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
A poem round and perfect as a star.
We have two lives; The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night; The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.
Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life
Books are a finer world within the world.
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.
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.