Smell Quotes - page 2

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt. (Lauren Willig)

I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

Robert Duvall

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

Ethel Waters

I did the cover of Cigar Aficionado, so I'm supposed to talk about loving cigars. I've smoked them a couple of times. My father used to smoke cigars. I love the idea and the concept, and I love the smell of cigars.

Gina Gershon

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Rachel Carson

I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does.

Daniel Handler

Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.

Robert A. Heinlein

There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!

Frank Zappa

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

W. Somerset Maugham

Money does not smell.

Vespasian

The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not. (Marcus Aurelius)

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

Fernando Pessoa

The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.

Raymond Chandler

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

Gao Xingjian

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood

The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.

Margaret Atwood

Sudden Light I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the light around the shore.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

E. M. Forster

A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.

Matthew Stover

And you will believe in love
And all that it's supposed to be
But just until the fish start to smell
And you're struck down by a hammer. (Rufus Wainwright)

I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love.

Rufus Wainwright

I can smell burning flesh ... and I hope to God it's human.

Morrissey

That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

Garth Brooks

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Colette

Previous
1
2 (Current)
3
4
...
28
Next