Smell Quotes - Page 23

I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.

Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.

Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.

The wise duck keeps his mouth shut when he smells frogs.

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

Scent is very important. Strong fragrances suit some men, while citrus types suit others. I like my men to smell fresh and woody, but also like a man.

Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.

I always liked the smell of a smoke-filled room. I think it's a good smell.

I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.

Decorating the gym can't mask the fact that it smells like a mix between corsage and balls.

It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

The younger generation can smell fakes - Authenticity trumps cool.

You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a moral morbidity I smell in my sleep. The acts I committed for the love of you. Acts I can never forget. I crawled into the bellies of the dead to fish out a little life... I have an appetite for it now. I have an unrelenting lust for death.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.

The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome

Burn, Hollywood, burn, I smell a riot goin' on, First they're guilty, now they're gone!

When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.