Perfume Quotes
342 Perfume quotes by 274 unique authors
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It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been…
— Margaret George
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Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some…
— Annie Proulx
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The dog ran into the kitchen, stuck his nose in Grandma's crotch, and snuffled. Dang," Grandma said. "Guess my new perfume really works. I'm gonna…
— Janet Evanovich
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Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.
— Gayle Forman
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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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There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and…
— Oscar Wilde
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The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came…
— Oscar Wilde
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Coffe is the perfume of morning.
— Charlaine Harris
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Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted…
— Malcolm X
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Let me tell you, you either have chemistry or you don't, and you better have it, or it's like kissing some relative. But chemistry, listen…
— Deb Caletti
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The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible…
— Stephen Fry
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And for the rest of the night, he couldn’t quite forget the smell of her perfume. Or maybe it was the soft sound of her…
— Julia Quinn
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(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand…
— Ray Bradbury
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In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue…
— Anita Diament
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Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.
— Wallace Stegner
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Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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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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I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen…
— Therese of Lisieux
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I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.
— Donald Barthelme
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Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. I’ll bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her…
— Blaize Clement
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History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.
— Jodi Picoult
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Her perfume or soap or whatever it was reminded him of sandalwood and something else. Oh, right...orgasms.
— J R Ward
Who Wrote These Perfume Quotes
274 authors contributed a total of 342 Perfume Quotes, led by these top contributors: