Bottles Quote by Daphne du Maurier

Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

— Gerald Brenan

“Memory…is not the mechanical recording device people often think it is. Memory is anything but constant, anything but indubitable. It shifts and fades, blooms…

— Martha Beck

The value of memories increases over time. What may seem trivial today, could become priceless tomorrow.

— Anonymous

“How many 'inventions' are really memories, of the things we once knew?”

— Diana Gabaldon

“...memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Nothing brings to life again a forgotten memory like a fragrance.”

— Christopher Poindexter

“fragrance was the sharpest trigger of memory, a transport into forgotten worlds.”

— Anne Rice

Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I…

— Jodi Picoult

We can invent only with memory.

— Alphonse Karr

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

— Eli Whitney

Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.

— Christian Dior