Scentless Quotes

#1. The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.

Walter Savage Landor

#2. Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#3. As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

Gautama Buddha

#4. She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die like an early, colourless, scentless flower that the end of the winter puts forth
mercilessly. And she wanted to harbour her modicum of twinkling life.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. Nor did I reflect that some herbs, though scentless when entire, yield fragrance when they're bruised.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. I tell him the ugly duckling grew up to be a huge asshole." "Why?

Alex Flinn

#7. Writing is like sex, you are always learning new things and nuances.

T-Boner

#8. I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

Jim Talent

#9. Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#10. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.

Jessica Mitford