Smells - Smelling Quotes

All these gods demanded praise, flattery, and worship. Most of them were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour ‘Twas noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue noon in May The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road; Then, pausing here, set down its load, […]

It’s a sad woman who buys her own perfume.

I’ve always believed one should stop to smell the roses. In fact, I prefer to linger, drinking in that sweet aroma, well beyond the time my fellow souls might care to spend. And to hell with those grumbling whiners in line behind me waiting to view the casket.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being.

A woman states, “Dr. Johnson, you smell!” Johnson replies, “No, Madam. You smell, I stink!”

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.