“ 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- Copy
- 556
“ Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. ”
- Diane Ackerman- Copy
- 3.2K
“ When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden. ”
- Carlos Santana- Copy
- 574
“ In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
- 2.9K
“ To attract men, I wear a perfume called ''New Car Interior.''. ”
- Rita Rudner- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling, and breathe forth their sweetest odours… ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful. ”
- Lucy Maud Montgomery- Copy
- 2.2K
“ You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct? ”
- Margaret Culkin Banning- Copy
- 40
“ I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory. ”
- Francis Ford Coppola- Copy
- 1.8K
“ What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is? 'Tis doubt, my Postumus, he that doth smell So sweetly always, smells not very well. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
- 3.5K
“ You are all camphire and frankincense, all chastity and odour. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
- 751
“ Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. ”
- Arthur Miller- Copy
- 525
“ I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera. ”
- Steven Spielberg- Copy
- 3.4K
“ There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. ”
- Alison Lurie- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
- 2.6K
“ 'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 522
“ Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation. ”
- Shvetashvatara Upanishad- Copy
- 899
“ Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches or uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service. ”
- Swami Ramdas- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
- 80
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