Scented Quotes
47 quotes by 47 authors
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I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all…
— Mary J. Blige
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The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a…
— Chief Seattle
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Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the…
— Simon Mawer
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Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.
— Rumi
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!
— Ezra Pound
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The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.
— Samuel Johnson
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
— Hippocrates
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A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in…
— Luis de Camoes
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Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your…
— Amy Bloom
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What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their…
— Charles Lamb
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Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight,…
— Pythagoras
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And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I…
— Walt Whitman
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How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple…
— Rosemary Verey
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To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner…
— Sei Shonagon
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A sweetly scented angel fell, she laid her head upon my disbelief, and battled with me with her ever smile.
— Jethro Tull
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Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!
— Omar Khayyam
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Winding her arms close around his neck, she closed her eyes. To be embraced, safe in a man's arms when she had never expected it…
— Maggie Osborne
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Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India,…
— Robert Tisserand
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Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented dish-washing liquid. Forget…
— David Letterman
Who Wrote These Scented Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 47 Scented Quotes, led by these top contributors: