Scent Quotes

396 Scent quotes by 310 unique authors

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates. — Marcel Proust
Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides,… — Pablo Picasso
A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you. — Shakira
Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can… — Jim Hodges
It was very strange, for I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my… — Stephenie Meyer
And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies,… — Peter Ackroyd
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few… — Angus Wilson
We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is a beautiful time of year with spring beginning to burst forth in many parts of the world, bringing all of its colors, scents,… — M. Russell Ballard
Already the scent of victory is in the air. — Wesley Clark
I want something mouthwatering and tasty which reminds me of childhood. The scent of a fairground, candy floss, little cakes, chocolates and caramels. Perfume must… — Thierry Mugler
No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk. — Narciso Rodriguez
I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in… — Charles Dickens
I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The… — Dian Fossey
I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber… — Elwyn Brooks White
If dislocation is a permanent state, I want to try and explore the possibility of temporary impermanence. If dislocation is a tatty dress from the… — Diriye Osman
A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger. — Jerry Stahl
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad. — D. H. Lawrence
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises… — Robert Musil
The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food. — Nikola Tesla
To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments,… — John Burroughs
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out. — John Bunyan
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for… — Alfred North Whitehead

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