Ben-aaronovitch Quote by Ben Aaronovitch

“Like a beautifully brightly colored flower without fragrance, is the well-spoken word without action.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“There seemed something rather devotional about her pose, the still­ness, so that I thought at last, She is praying!, and made to draw my…

— Sarah Waters

“Some people are like the fragrance of flowers!”

— Avijeet Das

“What type of flavor do you think I prefer?" She cocked her head. "The subtle, the delicately made. You're the type of person who…

— Joey W. Hill

“Five minutes later, the girls stood at the open kitchen door, blinking in the brilliant overcast light. The smell of lilacs, roses, sweet peas,…

— Heather Dixon

“he thinks that flowers are hauntingly delicate like a sigh of nobody in the dark.”

— Clarice Lispector

“She chose her colors carefully. She dressed slowly, she adjusted her petals one by one. She did not wish to present herself all rumpled…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Let a thing be but a sort of punctual surprise, like the first cache of violets in March, let it be delicate, painted and…

— Hope Mirrlees

Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story…

— William Shakespeare

“the literary equivalent of tearing the petals off and grinding them up and running the goo through a spectrometer to explain why a rose…

— David Foster Wallace

“the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of…

— Thérèse de Lisieux

“The tall white lillies were reeling in the moonlight, and the air was charged with perfume, as with a presence. Mrs. Morel gasped slightly…

— D.H. Lawrence