Alexander Smith Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

22 Famous Quotes by Alexander Smith
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“To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.”
Quotations Quotes
“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.”
Meeting Quotes
Source: Life Drama (sc. IV)
“If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.”
Statesmanship Quotes
Source: Dreamthorp--On the Writing of Essays
“Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.”
April Quotes
Source: A Life Drama (sc. 8, l. 65)
“The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.”
Evening Quotes
Source: A Life Drama (sc. 8)
“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."”
Sunset Quotes
Source: A Life Drama (sc. 4)
“We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass; That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.”
Forgetfulness Quotes
Source: City Poems--A Boy's Poem (pt. III)
“The sea complains upon a thousand shores.”
Oceans Quotes
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
Inspirational Quotes
“Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.”
Life Quotes
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. -Alexander Smith.”
Love Quotes
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Trees are your best antiques”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.”
Miscellaneous Quotes