Scent Quotes
396 quotes by 320 authors
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in…
— Diane Ackerman
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets…
— Diane Ackerman
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
— Jean Cocteau
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I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.
— Jennifer Aniston
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It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
— Ellen Glasgow
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A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of…
— C.S. Lewis
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and…
— Alexander Pope
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The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and…
— Monica Baldwin
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The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during the bustle of the…
— Rosemary Verey
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Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural…
— Beverley Nichols
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The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than…
— Sean O'Casey
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What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens.…
— Ruth Pitter
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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting…
— George Eliot
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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
— Ramakrishna
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Regardless of the reaction of others, one thing is certain: True worship and devotion will make our lives fragrant and will perfume the environment around…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor. Everyone could smell…
— Watchman Nee
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in…
— Diane Ackerman
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
— James Boswell
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The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love someone, nothing is…
— Nathan Eldon Tanner
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I hope you can understand one thing, I will like you till the day I die. Don't they say there's no reasons when you love…
— Lee Dong-gun
Who Wrote These Scent Quotes
320 authors contributed a total of 396 Scent Quotes, led by these top contributors: