Odor Quotes

111 Odor quotes by 102 unique authors

Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had… — Victor Hugo
A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the â€˜pieds de Dieuâ€™â€”the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor… — Michael Pollan
I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The… — Dian Fossey
The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor.… — Tom Robbins
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell… — Lin Yutang
The only thing strong about the French Army is their damn body odor. — Dwayne Johnson
So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in… — Charles Darwin
A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to… — Wilferd Peterson
The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever. — Elwyn Brooks White
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed. — Maureen Howard
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example. — Henry Ward Beecher
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me… — Helen Keller
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in… — M.F.K. Fisher
Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory — Jean-Claude Ellena
The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms… — Lord Byron
The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose,… — Bodhidharma
I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof,… — Williston Fish
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all… — Leigh Hunt
Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free. — William Wetmore Story

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