Odor Quotes
111 Odor quotes by 102 unique authors
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I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the…
— John Steinbeck
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I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.
— Hilary Mantel
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Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid…
— Emilie Autumn
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Do you think you could put that boot back on?" he added mildly. "The window can only let in a limited ammount of fresh air…
— John Flanagan
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A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in…
— John Steinbeck
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We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that,…
— Nick Hornby
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She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue,…
— Shannon Hale
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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted…
— Saint Augustine
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He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all…
— Antonio Machado
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Guess who has PE first hour? This is so unfair. I start the day off perspiring like an elephant in heat. Don't the people who…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all…
— Edward Abbey
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From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by…
— Rita Dove
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In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as…
— John Edward Williams
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Never! Never, Marge. I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles. Sure,…
— Matt Groening
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The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.
— George S. Clason
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There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact.
— Rainbow Rowell
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I love crystals, the beauty of their forms and formation; liquids, dormant, distilling, sloshing! The fumes, the odors good or bad, the rainbow of colors;…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Odor Quotes
102 authors contributed a total of 111 Odor Quotes, led by these top contributors: