Quotes About Odours

#1. Holloway Prison is a very old place, and it has the disadvantages of old places which have never known enough air and sunshine. It reeks with the odours of generations of bad ventilation, and it contrives to be at once the stuffiest and the draughtiest building I have ever been in.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#2. Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth
With such a full and unwithdrawing hand,
Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks,
Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable,
But all to please and sate the curious taste?

John Milton

#3. If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.

John Gerard

#4. ...body odours are certainly affected by high levels of stress. Working too much; too many problems; no time for leisure, etcetera, can - on a subconscious level - be recognised in the way you smell.
Love Professor - to Jennifer

Jennifer Cox

#5. She has folded
Them back into her body as petals
Of a rose close when the garden
Stiffens and odours bleed
From the sweet, deep throats of the night flower.
The moon has nothing to be sad about,
Staring from her hood of bone.

Sylvia Plath

#6. And we had met at last in this same cave of greenery, while the summer night hung round us heavy with love, and the odours that crept through the silence from the sleeping woods were the only signs of an outer world that invaded our solitude.

George MacDonald

#7. Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.

Yehuda Levi

#8. Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

Lord Byron

#9. But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#10. He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

Charles Dickens

#11. And then they were inside, and out of the wind, and surrounded by comforting walls and walls of books. The rich, delightful smell of old paper, leather and ink permeated the place, washing away the pettier odours of blood and oil and smog.

Genevieve Cogman

#12. [about a book lent by a crush]
Last night I read into the wee small hours. Fell asleep with my face in the book, my nose pressed up against the print. Could smell Sean on the pages, the lingering odours from his sportsbag. Man scent, liniment, damp earth.

Bob Condron

#13. The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.

Samuel Rogers

#14. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

Emmuska Orczy

#15. I was overwhelmed by the smells. Slow, heavy odours, tenaciously biting, forming a strange mixture of excessive life and death, of birth and decay.

Jean-Christophe Grange

#16. Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.

Henry Van Dyke

#17. A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.

Louise Wilder

#18. Virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Francis Bacon

#19. Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

Samuel Johnson

#20. Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.

Anurag Shourie

#21. In achieving your greatest potential in life, the more enemies you'll make but just "Take care and play the game smart.

Auliq Ice

#22. What an astonishing thing a book is.

Carl Sagan

#23. Our ideas of what our priorities are shift as we come face-to-face with some of the struggles.

Atul Gawande

#24. What a fool she must have been ever to have had anything to do with the man!

Thomas Hardy

#25. I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.

Cheryl Hines

#26. The extent of neural growth and learning during sensitive periods results in early experience having a disproportionate impact on the shaping of our brains.

Louis Cozolino

#27. We either allow ourselves to feel the burn of our own pain or someone we love gets burned by it.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#28. The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz. 12.

Vishen Lakhiani

#29. Volume is often heavy when things are about to change, signaling a breakout of support or resistance, and a possible change in trend.

Billy Williams

#30. I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.

Jenny Lewis

#31. History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep changing parts.

Ian Fleming

#32. I will be your neighbour, your nurse, your housekeeper. I find you lonely: I will be your companion
to read to you, to walk with you, to sit with you, to wait on you, to be eyes and hands to you. Cease to look so melancholy, my dear master; you shall not be left desolate, so long as I live.

Charlotte Bronte

#33. 24To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy - 25to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.

Anonymous

#34. I'm a simple small 'c' conservative who believes in public service, serving others, and doing a good job for my country.

David Cameron