Best Quotes

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

Alexander Smith

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

Alexander Smith

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

Alexander Smith

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Alexander Smith

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Alexander Smith

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Alexander Smith

Books are a finer world within the world.

Alexander Smith

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Alexander Smith

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Alexander Smith