Artist Quote by Harold Town

“The face of Capt. Daniel-Hyacinthe-Marie Liénard de Beaujeu is striped in war paint. Primeval forest conceals his French Marines, Canadian militia, and Indian allies…

— Bill O'Reilly

“The smell of oil in the air was huge and furry.”

— Stephen King

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

— Bertrand Russell

“In a battle, an army of farts would surely beat an army of noses, even if those noses were armed with fingers that could…

— Jarod Kintz

“For the first time his senses began to register the exotic, heady atmosphere of Mumbai...the odors most insistently demanded his attention. There were layers…

— Kathryn Guare

To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing…

— Wade Davis

“An astonishing, curdled smell that had subtle layers of foulness for the nose to explore.”

— Andrew Michael Hurley

“On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls Of mastodons, are billiard balls. The sword of Charlemagne the Just…

— Arthur Guiterman

The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature.

— Amos Oz

“Leila’s particular sensitivities seemed to cycle between the wafty, closer smells—mainly food and human—that draped over a moment, and the dusty, distant smells that…

— David Shafer

“Both armies liked to poison their weapons. They usually used the blood of Medusa, or spittle from Cerberus, the three-headed dog of the underworld.…

— Angie Fox

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army…

— Honore de Balzac