Smells - Smelling Quotes

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.

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.

Nose, n. The extreme outpost of the face. It has been observed that one’s nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.