Odours Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes…
— Victor Grignard
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She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all…
— John Milton
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The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.
— Samuel Rogers
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A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill…
— Louise Wilder
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The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own quality of life.…
— Matthew Scully
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Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it…
— Heinrich Heine
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The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different…
— Alexander Calder
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Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise…
— Edward Thomas
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He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long,…
— Charles Dickens
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But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
— Baroness Orczy
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Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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Odours have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions or will. The persuasive power of an odour cannot be fended off,…
— Patrick Suskind
Who Wrote These Odours Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Odours Quotes as follows: