Smells - Smelling Quotes

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.

And the smell of war is pungent On cordite-laden breath.

In the depths of a man’s being there was something that responded with a quack to such perfume. Quack! A sexual reflex that had nothing to do with age or subtlety, wisdom, experience, history, Wissenschaft, Bildung, Wahrheit. In sickness or health there came the old quack-quack at the fragrance of a perfumed, feminine skin.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.