Odour Quotes

31 quotes by 31 authors

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. — Robert Bridges
The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor… — Jerome K. Jerome
A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not… — Isabella Beeton
And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing… — E E Cummings
When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is… — Carl Sagan
... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law ... it looks… — Edward Augustus Bowles
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies,… — Peter Ackroyd
There was no smell. Over the years time other than when it rained, the musty odour was present. People were in and out of that… — John Wayne Gacy
Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers,… — George Gissing
The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and… — Lyall Watson
As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching… — Charles Darwin
The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search… — Federico Garcia Lorca
And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour,… — Walter Pater
For the Sensitive Plant has no bright flower; Radiance and odour are not its dower; It loves, even like Love, its deep heart is full,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away… — Thomas Moore
I like the light that comes off metal shutters at siesta time in the summer, having a break from driving in the shops at motorway… — Audrey Tautou
He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey… — Thomas Hardy
There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and… — Charles Lamb

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