Approach Quote by William Shenstone

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

— William Shenstone

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

— Francis Bacon

Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.

— Proverb

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume

— French Proverb

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

— Thomas Starr King

A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds…

— Diane Ackerman

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

— Baroness Orczy

The beauty in words is realized only by actions as fragrance is there in flowers but it is felt only by smelling.

— Anuj Somany

Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.

— Gautama Buddha

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

— Jules Verne

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

— Heinrich Heine