Air Quote by Patrick O'Brian

“How vivid, still, are the seagoing smells? Oily bilges, fish entrails, a freshly lit cigarette drawn through salt paper? And at night, if you…

— James Hamilton-Paterson

Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the…

— Charles Dickens

“The odor of burning sulphur shifted on the night air, acrid, a little foul. Somewhere, the Canaan dwellers had learned of a supplier of…

— Leslie H. Whitten Jr

“I begin with the test tube labeled, with a red Sharpie marker, "Assimilation." The smell alone can make anyone lose some, if not all,…

— Dolores Delgado Bernal

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

— Henry David Thoreau

“This internal sea. The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads ay poisonous flotsam and jetsam … that poison is diluted…

— Irvine Welsh

“Taste, like smell, is a doorman for the digestive tract, a chemical scan for possibly dangerous (bitter, sour) elements and desirable (salty, sweet) nutrients.”

— Mary Roach

Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.

— Gao Xingjian

“I inhale, and the two best smells in my world get trapped in my lungs: the salty, cool sting of the ocean in the…

— Steph Campbell

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

— Bertrand Russell

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and…

— Christopher Shays

A man that smells good.

— Maggie