Smell Quotes

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. (H. L. Mencken)
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? View quote
Erma Bombeck
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. View quote
William Shakespeare
Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. View quote
James Shirley
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. View quote
Georges Rouault
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. View quote
Octave Mirbeau
Fish and visitors smell in three days. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
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. View quote
Arthur Miller
It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance. View quote
Lena Horne
Your words smell of corpses. (Georg Büchner)
It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers - not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell. View quote
Steven Weinberg
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. View quote
John Irving
Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns. View quote
George Herbert
The best smell is bread the best savor, salt the best love, that of children. View quote
George Herbert
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. View quote
Henry Rollins
The best smell in the world is that man that you love. View quote
Jennifer Aniston
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. View quote
Thomas Mann
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. View quote
Penn Jillette
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. (William Shakespeare)
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera. View quote
Steven Spielberg
Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell. View quote
Paula Deen
We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling. View quote
Paul Arden
Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep. View quote
Fran Drescher
📖 Smell Proverbs