Scent Quotes

396 quotes by 320 authors

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
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
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. — Jean Cocteau
I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing. — Jennifer Aniston
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself. — Ramakrishna
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
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
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
The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man. — James Boswell
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
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

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