Fish Quote by Charles Dickens

“Various pieces of huge dark furniture constricted the passage, and the place smelled of boiled fish. I was shown into the parlor, where the…

— Patrick McGrath

“Then he noticed a little row-boat at about two hundred yards from the shore. There were two or three people aboard, he could not…

— Arthur Machen

“The smell of dead fish lingered in the air, and excited flies darted from fish to fish lapping up the decay.”

— S.W. Lothian

“Just outside Dover we stopped at an inn and I snatched a taste of dainty fried fish named smelts, and some herrings served with…

— Martine Bailey

“The seamen had whitewashed the smoky ceilings of the ward, and that dear homely smell carried the vividness of thatch and lumpy walls and…

— Peter Carey

“The air was so rich it had body, fragrance seeming to carry in it as easily as sound: perfumes, birdcalls, every breeze as alive…

— Laini Taylor

“The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort…

— Ami McKay

“A breeze had arisen and trailed faintly through the house like a sick woman in a long dressing gown, and with it the odor…

— Christina Stead

“...there was a storm of enormous proportions, with winds so strong that dozens of fish were drawn up from the reedy shallows, then lifted…

— Alice Hoffman

“The sea was like another member of the household, a recalcitrant child at times, a soothing aunt at others. She crooned them awake; she…

— Hala Alyan

“The house gulped in a big breath of fresh air, like some frantic drowning thing breaking the water's surface and gasping for life. It…

— Rachel Autumn Deering

“The air smelled of salt and sand and fish. As though all was peace, and harvesttime, and autumn nights. Not the end of everything.”

— Julie Berry