Smelt Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
— Josh Billings
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We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was…
— Anatole France
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The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is…
— Mabel Collins
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Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.
— D. H. Lawrence
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We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly.
— Charles Darwin
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Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.
— Christopher Smart
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I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was…
— Graham Chapman
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It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape:…
— Stephen Fry
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Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely…
— Seamus Heaney
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The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked…
— Penelope Lively
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When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit…
— Robert Fisk
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He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with…
— Thomas Hardy
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They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by.…
— Enid Blyton
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He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something…
— Jojo Moyes
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
— Hank Williams
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ALL THAT WAS OF YOU I Saw A Beautiful Morning Like I Had Never Before With A Cloudy Sky Up Hiding Shine Of The Sun…
— SangFroid Shaalu
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A lot of the images in my work are a kind of visual diary of places I've been, what I've seen, heard, smelt.
— Francesca Da Rimini
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed
— Josh Billings
Who Wrote These Smelt Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Smelt Quotes as follows: