Come Up Smelling Of Roses Quotes

#1. I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.

Martin Freeman

#2. We treat the crime capital of the United States as if it was a second Disneyland, smelling like roses, a great place to take the family or hold a convention.

Ross Macdonald

#3. You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

Bill Gross

#4. Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Forneus could talk the Pope out of his soul and still come out smelling like roses.

E.J. Stevens

#6. Woman, if you leave me smelling like roses . . . I'll see you regret it, he warned.

Lynn Kurland

#7. While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

Eli Broad

#8. It's spring giving way to summer, balmy air smelling of roses, hot skin meeting the cold shock of the ocean, starry nights as warm as kisses.

Sarah McCarry

#9. The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

Julie Burchill