Fragrant Quotes

120 quotes by 105 authors

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
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
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
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
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
Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. — Maria Gowen Brooks
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
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility. — Soren Kierkegaard
"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
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
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
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it. — Christopher Columbus
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
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
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
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
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
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. — Earl Nightingale
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
Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight. — Alice Hoffman

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