Quotes About Reek

#1. Reek took not more than an hour to relate what would've taken the most intelligent man five or six hours
that is, five minutes of speech and the rest of the five hours to recover from the nausea caused by having to utter such shameless rot ...

Sinclair Lewis

#2. The combined odors of Cass's subtle aftershave and the disgusting reek of Nic are overpowering. I wonder if Cass will keel over and I'll have to perform CPR. This speculation should not feel so much like a fantasy.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#3. There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose
in a book?
Granny Rudin

Florence King

#4. Ignore the reek of feces in the air, the bloodstains on the ground, and you have yourself a glorious night.

Katherine McIntyre

#5. Are you still doing that crap?" I ask.
"You can't even do it properly," Eileen says.
"Just a matter of practice," Simone says.
"Wow! Practicing how to poison yourself and make your breath reek like the fart of a seagull!" Eileen cries.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#6. Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.

George Eliot

#7. Dorcas, you already reek like a Marseilles cat house; don't wheedle Mike for more stinkum.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. Just got back from a 5 day camping trip. No phones, no Internet, no problem. It was great. Now time for a hot shower. I absolutely reek!

Cody Walker

#9. You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty!

William Shakespeare

#10. Whether with a lover or none. i reek of love. i stink of love.

Nayyirah Waheed

#11. Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard's revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first!

Janny Wurts

#12. Our society tells men they are worthless perverts who reek of male privilege while simultaneously castrating them should they act in a manly manner, and now women are upset because men are becoming more feminized? You reap what you sow.

Helen Smith

#13. Jabbo and Bungalow came in out of the weather in a bathless reek of cold wool and splo whiskey.

Cormac McCarthy

#14. Here the scent of fake roses was underscored with the bright iron reek of blood.

Christa Faust

#15. And the funny, impish magic of a wrap party is that everyone still has scraps of their characters hanging off them like Salome's veils, fluttering, fading, but not quite finished tangling the tongue and tripping the feet. You're not in Wonderland anymore, but you positively reek of rabbit.

Catherynne M Valente

#16. Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

Francis Chan

#17. I forget your name," I said.
"Most people spew shit from their arse," he retorted, "you manage it with your mouth."
"Your mother gave birth through her arse," I said, "and you still reek of her shit.

Bernard Cornwell

#18. Manon Blackbeak awoke to the sighing of leaves, the distant call of wary birds, and the reek of loam and ancient wood. She

Sarah J. Maas

#19. I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.

David McCullough

#20. You reek of lust," Arys commented. The fresh energy rolled off him and tantalized my senses. "What have you been doing in here without me?

Trina M. Lee

#21. No mystery surrounded his nickname: he was enormous and he was filthy. Pig smelled so bad it confused people. When they encountered his reek, they looked around him for the source, so implausible did it seem that the odor could emanate from a human.

Michael Punke

#22. You're pale and you're cold, and you reek like steel.

Brenna Yovanoff

#23. I'm not him, I'm not the turncloak, he died at Winterfell. My name is Reek, It rhymes with freak

George R R Martin

#24. The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.

Frank Zappa

#25. It wasn't right. Evil should look evil. It should reek like rotten flesh, not smell like pine cleaner and fabric softener

Sydney Croft

#26. Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

Christopher Hitchens

#27. There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#28. A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and
undercutting the old-wood smell
the reek of turpentine, oil paint, and varnish.

Donna Tartt

#29. Soldiers planted like vegetables waiting for the day of harvest. ... everything is more intense at night, perfectly beautiful, and when the wind shifts and the reek of rotting meat vanishes for a few blessed minutes you can smell the sweet scent of the countryside.

Louis De Bernieres

#30. It's easier to hang out with the patients in the indoor garden, with its sunlight and picnic tables. Easier to forget that someone's ill when you're not surrounded by the antiseptic reek of hospital-issue debris.

Corrine Jackson

#31. I love the smell of male urine and the reek of his groin on my bath towels after he'd had a shower

J.G. Ballard

#32. Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres ... quit the ranks. That's the sign of masterpieces and heroes. An original, that's the person to astonish and to rule.

Jean Cocteau

#33. If I were to say, "this isn't a sacrifice" at this moment, it would reek of a lie...
... But I hope I'll be able to really say that in a few years' time.

Yumi Unita

#34. The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.

George R R Martin

#35. If she pops out sons the way she pops in tarts, the Dreadfort will soon be overrun with Boltons.

George R R Martin