Scent Quotes

396 Scent quotes by 310 unique authors

He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his… — Virginia Woolf
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager… — Frederic William Maitland
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. — William Golding
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry… — Marc Bloch
My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it… — Wally Lamb
I'm going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy! — Yohji Yamamoto
Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love. — Octave Mirbeau
The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when… — Joseph Wood Krutch
When bow-hunting, you find you get closer to the woodland critters. The flora and the forest floor becomes clearer. You look at things more closely.… — Fred Bear
Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the… — Richard Louv
The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a… — Isak Dinesen
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent. — Anthony of Padua
China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon. — Constance Spry
Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we… — Henry David Thoreau
I warn you, Kelsey, that I'm an extremely patient man. I've had extensive practice in waiting out the enemy. My life as a tiger has… — Colleen Houck
Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not… — Saint Augustine
Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your… — Laozi
As our lives speed up more and more, so do our children's. We forget and thus they forget that there is nothing more important than… — Michael Gurian
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. — William Cowper
Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the… — Pablo Neruda
O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells. Bring back… — William Allingham
People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but… — Adriana Trigiani
The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down the mountain road… — Adriana Trigiani
Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be. — Unknown Author

Who Wrote These Scent Quotes

310 authors contributed a total of 396 Scent Quotes, led by these top contributors: