Top 100 Scented Quotes
#1. Like the rest of the house, it was beautifully appointed with shiny European wallpaper, lavender-scented soap and an oil painting over the toilet. Geoff
Dan Skinner
#2. This isn't lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love's a dictator.
David Mitchell
#3. Twoleg den with cows and a dark, hay-scented barn where she and
Erin Hunter
#4. Honey, these aren't ordinary penis bones." "Not the kind you pick up at Walgreens, with a bottle of aspirin and a scented candle?
Cherie Priest
#5. natureIf the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. ~
Henry David Thoreau
#6. My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.
Alfred Austin
#7. Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.
Edith Wharton
#8. Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.
Amy Bloom
#9. Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!
Ezra Pound
#10. Loving for beauty is like vowing a lifetime commitment to a rose. No-matter how sweet-scented or pink "petald", every rose withers.
Moffat Machingura
#11. The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
W. H. Auden
#12. The stove not only took up room and scented the house, but it concealed the fire, and I felt as if I had lost a companion. You can always see a face in the fire.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle
David Nicholls
#14. His answering smile evoked silken sheets and jasmine-scented breezes at midnight.
Sarah J. Maas
#15. When I am away from Liturgy for too long, I find I burn for it now, for the steadiness of the calendar, the words" that ring out in repetition, the heavy scented air. When I return each week, I am coming home again. Liturgy is written into my flesh, sinking into my skin and my spirit.
Angela Doll Carlson
#16. If she was mine, I would've taken her home, scented and marked her, and she wouldn't be running around giving my cookies out to everyone." I
Alexa Riley
#17. There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.
John Frederick Boyes
#18. Zandy Brandy scented lotion - like the Normans, drunk and with soft hands!
A.J. Lauer
#19. Fragrance should never be worn like a thick scented choker, where the scent emanates from the neck in strong blasts like a foghorn! Rather, it should sparkle like twinkling stars, where small bursts disperse here and there, they elude us, pique our curiosity and make us want more.
Marian Bendeth
#20. If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.
Henry David Thoreau
#21. Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle.
Carrie Underwood
#22. And as they gave themselves to each other on the smooth, cedar-scented planks, they made something older than time and newer than tomorrow.
They made love - pure, fresh, timeless, and true.
Robin Wells
#23. The scented cloud permeates the air and coats our tongues, triggering images: licorice tobacco and a seductive fae with an agenda, ocean salt and a mortal boy's sweat, maple syrup and a father's love, a mother's sacrifice and a lunar garden rich with lilies and honeysuckle.
A.G. Howard
#24. I shall lie folded like a saint,
Lapped in a scented linen sheet,
On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,
Narrow and cold and neat.
Elinor Wylie
#25. Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.
Simon Mawer
#26. I placed a bowl of herbs and ointments in the window of my bedroom, and let the scented breeze carry him away ...
Sherry Jones
#27. Two women, one nigra and one white, whose voices were part of me, whose hands had comforted, soothed, and taught. One a pine-knot torch and the other a scented beeswax candle against the darkness of my ignorance and fear. Both gone.
Ann Rinaldi
#28. Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28
Augusten Burroughs
#29. The night folded around them with a sweetness and poignancy heightened by the new pale stars that prickled silver fire in the water of the lily ponds, by the scented winds, and by the nearness of each other.
Pauline Gedge
#30. I start lighting pine-scented candles the day after Halloween.
Mary Page Keller
#31. The breeze through the open window scented the interior of the car with leaves and water, growing things and secret things.
Maggie Stiefvater
#32. Blue," he warned, but his voice was chaotic. This close, his throat was scented with mint and wool sweater and vinyl car seat, and Gansey, just Gansey.
She said, "I just want to pretend. I want to pretend that I could.
Maggie Stiefvater
#33. The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it.
J.G. Ballard
#34. Never underestimate the power of a scented candle! declared a sign beneath a display of coloured candles.
Yes, I thought. Buy two and invade Russia!
Alice Pung
#35. What smells good may not always taste good, I leaned this the day I tried to eat a scented candle.
Kenny D. Eichenberg
#37. In silence they landed, and pushed through the blossom and scented herbage and undergrowth that led up to the level ground, till they stood on a little lawn of a marvellous green, set round with Nature's own orchard-trees - crab-apple, wild cherry, and sloe.
Kenneth Grahame
#38. Meanwhile, spring came, and with it the outpourings of Nature. The hills were soon splashed with wild flowers; the grass became an altogether new and richer shade of green; and the air became scented with fresh and surprising smells
of jasmine, honeysuckle, and lavender.
Dalai Lama XIV
#39. I like the Hotel Costes, on rue Saint Honore, a boutique hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre and the Tuileries. I love the dark, moody decor as well as the fantastic scented, candlelit pool in the basement.
Alice Temperley
#40. Young foliage sweet bronze.
Most strongly scented of all wisterias.
Deep spring: overcome by my own perfume.
Tessa Rumsey
#41. The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.
Samuel Johnson
#42. Knocking back the wine and reaching for the cheap consolations of kimchee-scented Kleenex fiction
Maureen Corrigan
#43. Some genius of the South
With blood-hot eyes and cane-lipped scented mouth,
Surprised in making folk-songs from soul sounds.
Jean Toomer
#44. I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.
Mary J. Blige
#45. The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.
Louise Imogen Guiney
#46. Love you not, then, to list and hear
The crackling of the gorse-flower near,
Pouring an orange-scented tide
Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?
Alfred William Howitt
#47. To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.
Sei Shonagon
#48. Tell your father I never wanted to be a rose, only ever a night-scented gilliflower, and his moon was my sun.
Sylvie Grohne
#49. Except with their life mate. I'd convinced myself those women possessed a secret love potion they weren't sharing with the general public - one that tamed the primitive ways of a Shifter and made them do romantic things like buy flowers and rub their woman's feet with scented oils.
Dannika Dark
#50. The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with pinon pine. The air is precious to the red man, for all things are the same breath - the animals, the trees, the man.
Chief Seattle
#51. Her heart still quickened at the memory. The way his strong arms felt around her, his wine-scented breath across her lips, the toe-curling, mind-numbing, soul-searing kiss he'd given her.
Ava Stone
#53. Make scented geranium cream-Leaves steamed in cream, cream cheese and sugar. When cool-Eat with berries or poached peaches.
Sara Midda
#54. To wash your hair, apply your makeup and put on clothes that are well-scented with incense. Even if you're somewhere where no one special will see you, you still feel a heady sense of pleasure inside.
Sei Shonagon
#55. They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#56. Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!
Omar Khayyam
#57. Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower:
Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
Thomas More
#58. Son, you are now a man,' then he gave me a scented candle and told me how babies are made.
S.J. Kincaid
#59. Mine is the time of foliage,
When hills and valleys teem
With buds and vines sweet scented,
All clothed in glowing green.
My nights are bright and starry,
My days are long and clear
And truly I'm the fairest,
Of all months in the year.
Mary Weston Fordham
#60. If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people."
"And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.
Sherwood Smith
#61. You can spend your life chitchatting with someone - even a good friend - but spend even an hour moving over a rocky path, breathing in pine-scented air, and I guarantee you the chitchat will turn to something else.
Scott Jurek
#62. Tip: To avoid bruising the basil, Mama tore the leaves into pieces with her fingers. Chopping is fine, but you won't have basil-scented fingers.
Johnny Carrabba
#63. Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest - thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.
Beau Taplin
#64. Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented dish-washing liquid. Forget rose petals. Sprinkle the bed with sliced beets!
David Letterman
#65. I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.
Meghan Masterson
#66. It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?"
"It's meant to be lavender."
"No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money.
David Nicholls
#67. It had stopped raining but the sky was thick with clouds and the wind was growing stronger, scented with more rain to come.
Erin Hunter
#68. Its not the love that hurts but the scented memories of anticipated dreams of a future together
Kiran Joshi
#69. As the late afternoon sun shone in Shaw's face and a soft flower-scented wind cooled him, his unhappiness turned to a detachment that was not at all unpleasant. He was utterly alone in the world. This knowledge thrilled him.
Gore Vidal
#70. The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
Bradley Chicho
#71. I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?
Suzi Quatro
#72. Man to man, my eye Kipps snorted. It was like seeing two schoolgirls squabbling over a scented pencil. You should have heard the squeals.
Jonathon Stroud
#73. The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
Hippocrates
#74. People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that
just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#75. My chin is weak. I find it hard to make decisions. For years I had been caught between the two stools of security on the land and rich-scented life on the exotic islands of literature.
I wasn't really a writer. I had seen a strange beautiful light on the hills and that was all.
Patrick Kavanagh
#76. Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#77. The next morning I woke up with a furry lump pressed against my chest, its butt right under my chin. Before I could move, a toxic cloud of dog fart floated into my face. Barbeque sauce scented dog
Susan Lash
#78. Painted mafritty fritters frittering fitty fitty scented candelabra abra cadaver. Candle blah blah.
Fiddles McMonkeypants
#79. Not just in America. When I left my primary school, my father said, 'Son, you are now a man,' then he gave me a scented candle and told me how babies are made." Vik fought to keep his lips from twitching.
S.J. Kincaid
#80. Memories shrink. Like a soap bar used over and over, they become deformed, weaker scented, too slight and slippery to hold.
Amanda Hodgkinson
#81. Adrian: Do you smell that?"
Sydney: "I smell the paint, and ... wait ... is that pine?"
Adrian: "Damn straight. Pine-scented cleaner. As in, I cleaned. With these hands, these hands that don't do manual labor.
Richelle Mead
#82. One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth.
Kevin Barry
#83. And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.
There is just no way that you are the pine-scented air
Billy Collins
#84. I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailers packed with whatever song is on my mind.
Sarah Vowell
#85. But should Bortz have exfoliated the mere words so lushly, into such unnatural roses, under which whose red, scented dusk, dark history slithered unseen?
Thomas Pynchon
#86. The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.
Charles Dickens
#88. A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired. ~ [introduction of character Montparnasse]
Victor Hugo
#89. The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks
A scarlet rain; the yellow violet
Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox
Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet,
And all the streams with vernal-scented reed
Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
Bayard Taylor
#90. I am the call of love ...
Can you hear me in the full grasses, in the scented winds ?
It is I who makes the garden smile.
Rumi
#91. How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor.
Rosemary Verey
#92. Roger and I would squat in the heavily scented shade of the myrtle bushes and watch the array of creatures that passed us; at certain times of the day the branches were as busy as the main street of a town.
Gerald Durrell
#93. There's something spiritual in hard work. Spirituality isn't all aromatherapy and scented candles.
Craig Ferguson
#94. Montana should come with a surgeon general warning that it's addictive. The sky is big and blue, and the air is always fresh and crisp and scented with pine. There's a frontier spirit, but also a calmness, beauty in the landscape that slows your pulse.
Robin Bielman
#95. So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
John Milton
#96. Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.
Rumi
#97. Morpheus urges me into his lap and snuggles my head under his chin, securing me within his tobacco-scented embrace. It's the gentlest gesture we've ever shared. Now you know where you belong, Alyssa.
A.G. Howard
#98. They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
Luigi Barzini
#99. Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.
Terry Pratchett
#100. Her gaze dims as her nostalgia for Palermo overcomes her. Those smells of seaweed dried by the sun, of capers, of ripe figs, she will never find them anywhere else; those burnt and scented shores, those waves slowly breaking, jasmine petals flaking in the sun.
Dacia Maraini
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