Odour Quotes
31 quotes by 31 authors
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I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
— Robert Bridges
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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
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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
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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
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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
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... 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Odour Quotes
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