Smell Quotes · Page 34

“Probing the corners of the room like a caged cat, fly caught in a jar, fart in an elevator.”

— Dennis Vickers

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.

— Andrew Motion

It is a known truth that every body likes their own body odor, but none agrees.

— Yssubramanyam

Perfume is a note of woman's individuality. It is the last touch to her look.

— Christian Dior

If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.

— David Ignatow

“Muthafuckas don’t believe shit stink, until they can smell it. – Precious”

— Mike O

When trees burn, they leave the smell of heartbreak in the air.

— Jodi Thomas

So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.

— Jonathan Stroud

“Boston is a great center of learning. That surgeon was a tantric Buddha,” said Ram in admiration, “The smell of cautery is…

— Joe Niemczura

Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth a thing no more to be doled out to us…

— Roger Casement

“Waking up to a smell is a lot more satisfying than waking up to a noise. Instead of barging in uninvited and…

— Adi Alsaid

“The only thing I have left to remember her by is the scent of her perfume. I just broke into her car…

— Jarod Kintz

“But I really do need to clean up. Are bears attracted to the smell of sex? Am I like, a big glazed…

— A.E. Wasp

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always…

— Chuck Schumer

Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not…

— Rachel Corrie

“My nose never lies," he boasted. "I can smell defiance, I can smell pride, I can smell disobedience. I catch a whiff…

— George R.R. Martin

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like…

— Julio Cortazar

“Not a wonder you are out camping with us princess,” Rizz said dryly. Falita gave a clearing snort of her opposite nostril…

— M.L. Hall

I love a good wool suit, and I appreciate the fact that it's a natural fiber. I know where it comes from,…

— Jason Clarke

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell…

— Pliny the Elder

I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You’re the smartest girl I’ve ever met, and the…

— Rainbow Rowell

“And across the water, you would swear you could sniff it all; the cinnamon and the cloves, the frankincense and the honey…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads…

— Ellen Meloy

The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday.…

— Hugo Chavez

“You smell heavenly. I slept on your side of your side of the bed because your pillow smells of you.”

— E.L. James

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.

— Lena Horne

People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?

— John Green

“A good perfumer was part alchemist, part artist, and part wizard.”

— Lisa Kleypas

I occasionally wear Miss Dior perfume. It's quite elegant and feminine. It reminds me of a romantic evening out.

— Jaimie Alexander

I love putting on a candle, reading a book, and just taking a second for me.

— Jessica Long

“(Hallucination of particularly vile smells is called cacosmia.)”

— Oliver Sacks

“[Describing the soap in the gulag] It smelt as if some sacred physical law had been demeaned in its creation.”

— Martin Amis

“he smelled so good a mix of frost and something sharp like peppermint.”

— Julie Kagawa

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

— Elizabeth Taylor

“Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.”

— John Updike

The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.

— Max Verstappen

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

— Michael Patrick King

Rosewood has always been one of my favourite scents, as has the pink grapefruit and pepper we've also put in Homme.

— David Beckham

“The smell of sex always reminds me of summer youth camps growing up.”

— Jarod Kintz

A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.

— Giorgio Armani