Scent Quotes - Page 7

• The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.

  Christina Rossetti

  Humble, Men, Air

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

  Max Muller

  Flower, Men, Wind

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.130, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I have never been much of a groomer. I take baths a lot, but I don't wear deodorant. I don't have to. I have a miraculous body scent. I've had women smell me and say that should be bottled. I would advise guys to lay off the Drakkar, because the cavemen weren't wearing it. They might have been putting mint leaves on their balls, but your scent is grown naturally. I have really good dating advice.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Smell, Dating, Guy

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

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• Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Ambition, Men, Thinking

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 56), 1937.

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• In the past, I've been reluctant to share any bits of truth about myself or to really let people in on my reality. So I have said some things to throw people off the scent of what's really going on in my life. So I have sort of aided the media in printing these misconceptions, which I regret.

  Megan Fox

  Regret, Past, Reality

  "Megan Fox In ‘Interview’: I Lied About My Personality", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2010.

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• August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.

  Jean Hersey

  Weed, Sweet, Garden

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

  Steven Millhauser

  Summer, Cutting, Long

  Steven Millhauser (2008). “Dangerous Laughter”, p.62, Vintage

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• Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.

  Otto Wallach

  Oil, Substance, Mixtures

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• A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.

  Lorenzo Carcaterra

  Smell, Strenght, Weakness

  Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Gangster”, p.311, Ballantine Books

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• Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.

  Tahir Shah

  Struggle, Adversity, Air

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• The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.

  H. L. Mencken

  Long Ago, Atheism, Yahweh

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• People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Memories, Grandmother, People

  Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Smell, Hot

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1911). “The Fitz-Boodle papers, and other sketches”

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• I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Lakes, Woods

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• Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair.

  John Burroughs

  Spring, Night, Air

  John Burroughs (1906). “Bird and Bough”

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• There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

  Angela Thirkell

  Sweet, Nature, Smell

  Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton

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• How full and rich a world
  Theirs to inhabit is--
  Sweet scent of grass and bloom,
  Playmates' glad symphony,
  Cool touch of western wind,
  Sunshine's divine caress.
  How should they know or feel
  They are in darkness?
  But, oh, the miracle!
  If a Redeemer came,
  Laid finger on their eyes--
  One touch and what a world,
  New-born in loveliness!

  Israel Zangwill

  Sweet, Children, Eye

  Israel Zangwill (1903). “Blind Children”

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• I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

  Red Smith

  Cooking, Cabbage

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• The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Hunting, Color, Heaven

  Muhammad Iqbal (2012). “Javid-Nama (RLE Iran B)”, p.53, Taylor & Francis

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• Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

  Arthur Miller

  Eye, Brain, Noses

  Arthur Miller (2013). “Timebends: A Life”, p.381, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Song, Nature, Congratulations

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, Flower, Humility

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• The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

  John Bunyan

  Sweet, Heart, Beaten

  John Bunyan (1769). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, Mr. John Bunyan: ... Being several discourses upon various divine subjects. The second edition, with the following additions: I. A preface ... II. Some account of the life and death of the author, ...”, p.506

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• The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

  Nikola Tesla

  Medicine, Rose, Rays

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• Beck behaved himself, though it was really difficult, especially during the slow dances when they were so tantalizingly close. He savoured the feel of her against his body, the light scent of her perfume, the in her eyes that told him he was the center of her universe. It was a new and totally overwhelming experience.

  Jana Oliver

  Eye, Light, Body

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