Quote

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Alexander Smith

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Portrait
Portraits
Creation
Present
Like

More quotes by Alexander Smith

Image
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Alexander Smith
Image
Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
Alexander Smith
Image
An old novel has a history of its own.
Alexander Smith
Image
In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
Alexander Smith
Image
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Alexander Smith
Image
Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
Alexander Smith
Image
Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
Alexander Smith
Image
To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
Alexander Smith
Image
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.
Alexander Smith
Image
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
Alexander Smith
Image
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
Alexander Smith
Image
We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.
Alexander Smith
Image
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.
Alexander Smith
Image
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
Alexander Smith
Image
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
Alexander Smith
Image
Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
Alexander Smith
Image
A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
Alexander Smith
Image
The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
Alexander Smith
Image
It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.
Alexander Smith
Image
A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
Alexander Smith