Perfume Quotes

342 Perfume quotes by 274 unique authors

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive… — Uma Thurman
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First… — Calvin Trillin
I like perfume and flowers. — Donatella Versace
But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all… — Vivienne Westwood
I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared,… — Alber Elbaz
The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible… — Cathleen Schine
In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in… — Anne Rice
In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was… — Anne Rice
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes… — Ray Bradbury
...and every Wednesday the perfumed young lady slips me a hundred-crown note to leave her alone with the convict. And by Thursday the hundred crowns… — Italo Calvino
Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can… — Philip Roth
A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It… — Amy Lowell
For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories. — Anne Rice
She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the… — Patricia A. McKillip
The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions… — Arthur Rimbaud
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt... — Ray Bradbury
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy… — Oscar Wilde
Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me. — Ray Bradbury
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that… — Og Mandino
Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed. — Coco Chanel
Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty! — Charles Baudelaire
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to… — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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