Fragrant Quotes
120 quotes by 105 authors
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She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She…
— Alice Meynell
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The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.
— Elizabeth Oakes Smith
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It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which…
— Stephen Bayley
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Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth…
— Charles Godfrey Leland
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As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the…
— Chanakya
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Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.
— Maria Gowen Brooks
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So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to…
— Erasmus Darwin
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Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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"Thanks be to God," says the Admiral, "the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it,…
— Christopher Columbus
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Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er…
— Robert Herrick
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon…
— Hamlin Garland
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The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.
— Christopher Columbus
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Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the…
— Ray Comfort
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I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this…
— Theodore Dreiser
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There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and…
— Roger Ebert
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
— Earl Nightingale
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That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and…
— Anne Rivers Siddons
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Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.
— Alice Hoffman
Who Wrote These Fragrant Quotes
105 authors contributed a total of 120 Fragrant Quotes, led by these top contributors: