Stench Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and…
— Hilary Mantel
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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and…
— Cyril Connolly
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Noise: a stench in the ear.
— Ambrose Bierce
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But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are.…
— Robertson Davies
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Writers speak stench.
— Franz Kafka
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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
— Margaret Thatcher
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Writer speaks a stench.
— Franz Kafka
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This is hurting me a lot more than it’s hurting you," he said. It was his standard line, but I knew that this time he…
— David Sedaris
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And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out…
— J D Salinger
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Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There…
— Robert Penn Warren
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For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even…
— Patrick O'Brian
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Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the taste of putrid…
— Emilie Autumn
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It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me…
— Robert Penn Warren
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C’mon, friend. It’s two on one. You sure don’t look like you’re up to those odds. (Stranger) You can’t be talking to me. I don’t…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I suppose he'll die soon. I'm expecting it, like you do for a dog that's seventeen. There's no way to know how I'll react. He'll…
— Markus Zusak
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But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste of death forever in his mouth. The Trinity…
— Yann Martel
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He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the…
— Angie Sage
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His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to touch.…
— Robert Creeley
Who Wrote These Stench Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 47 Stench Quotes, led by these top contributors: