Top 100 Sniffed Quotes
#1. Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
Virginia Woolf
#2. How many of these rescue missions have you conducted anyway?" "More than I can count," sniffed the general. "I see," said Rex. "How many fingers am I holding up?
Robert Kroese
#3. It's about time you guys got here,' Oliver quipped. 'Alexei and I were starting to think you'd gotten lost.' Daphne sniffed. 'Please. We weren't lost. We were shopping.' 'That doesn't make it any better,' Oliver retorted. In fact, I'd say that makes it worse.
Jennifer Estep
#4. The Queen sniffed. "I rather miss your Jace," she said. "Of all of you, he was the prettiest and the best-mannered.
Cassandra Clare
#5. I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?"
"I've always been a stick-in-the-mud." Her brother cast her a thin smile. "I just hid it beneath all the debauchery."
She sniffed. "I wish you'd hide it again. It's quite annoying.
Sabrina Jeffries
#6. Schmendrick said, "She is the last. She is the last unicorn in the world."
"She would be." Molly sniffed. "It would be the last unicorn in the world that came to Molly Grue.
Peter S. Beagle
#7. The boy shivered. The bear sniffed the air.
"What do you smell now?" said the boy.
"Danger!" said the bear.
The boy looked alarmed. The bear sniffed again.
"Or maybe marmalade," said the bear.
The boy gave him a dubious stare.
"Possibly both," said the bear.
Dave Shelton
#8. He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. "Have you been drinking?" The question was more curious than accusatory. "No," Bast said. The innkeeper raised an eyebrow. "I've been tasting," Bast said, emphasizing the word. "Tasting comes before drinking.
Patrick Rothfuss
#9. Taking the sweatshirt, he raised it to his face and sniffed the bloodstains left on it.
Tim O'Rourke
#10. My heart felt like it was going to explode as I burst out crying. He laughed, "Hey, what's with the April showers?" I half giggled, half sniffed as he wiped my cheeks with his thumb. "These are happy tears" I whispered. He grinned, "No rain, no rainbow.
Karli Perrin
#11. Had they been dogs they would have sniffed me over and then drawn back. But humans have no such inbred courtesies.
Robin Hobb
#12. She tells everyone she's an introvert." Cordelia sniffed. "It's a sad, psychological malady. Comes from reading way too much Kafka.
Ellen Hart
#13. His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.
William Gibson
#14. Jilly Beaton's a vicious cow. Inspectors love her, but she's a cow when they've gone."
"Back home in Argentina," sniffed Isabella, "cows are very important, but they know their place.
Gabriella Poole
#15. Now that's just racist stereotyping," Tanya sniffed. "I'm offended." "You can file a complaint with the Trailer Park Elf Defamation League
Larry Correia
#16. Martin Silenus sniffed a jar, found a knife on the sandwich plate, and added great dollops of horseradish to his sandwich. His eyes sparkled with tears as he ate.
Dan Simmons
#17. As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them. I still do. I continue to do what I did as a child; dream of books, make books and collect books.
Maurice Sendak
#18. I thought that was my room," she said, gesturing behind him.
"It is."
"And my shower."
He sniffed with irritation. "I have a bathtub."
"And that's a problem?"
"I don't do bathtubs, Miss Burel." His eyebrow lifted. "Unless I have company.
Alexandra Ivy
#19. Now, darlin', you know that social etiquette is bred into us Southern girls." "Oh, please. You're as Southern as Tony Soprano." Mama sniffed. "I swear, I should have left you by the side of the road in Wheeling, West Virginia." "You did leave me there.
Kristin Hannah
#20. And in her underthings, no less!" Murder was less scandalous than my corset and pantalettes. She sniffed. "Like mother, like daughter.
Alyxandra Harvey
#21. Arthur said, "Let's be cool and not get busted. I advise rest and relaxation, and definitely a bath. You guys smell like booze and cheap whores."
Dred sniffed. "He's right. We do. Woof.
Laird Barron
#22. She sniffed, and smiled a bit, but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who doesn't understand you it's someone who understands perfectly, before you've had a chance to have a good pout about not being understood.
Terry Pratchett
#23. Thomas sniffed. "Don't let's start with all that." "I am not starting anything! You yourself started this business!" "Enough, Kam. I am warning you." "You don't warn me when I'm warning you!
Mira Jacob
#24. At night, without the distant hint of sunlight, the room felt colder and more hollow. Clay stretched up and sniffed at the darkness that had fallen on the other side of the hole. He thought it smelled like stars.
Tui T. Sutherland
#25. Those who write them do," Ferus said. "They leave bits and pieces behind them when they lay down the words, some scraps and smears of their essential nature." He sniffed. "Most untidy, really - but assemble enough scraps and one might have something approaching a whole.
Jim Butcher
#26. Is there anything else I can do to see to your comfort, Miss Trent?" Perriwick inquired.
"She's fine," Blake growled.
"Clearly, she
"
"Perriwick, isn't the west wing on fire?"
Perriwick blinked, sniffed the air, and stared at his employer in dismay. "I do not understand sir.
Julia Quinn
#27. The house was on fire," i greeted them tersely. "In case you're interested."
they both glanced up overhead as if to make sure the house was still standing. Fang sniffed, smelling the smoke.
It's out, right?" he said
James Patterson
#29. Trouble. Sweetheart. Sang. Don't. Don't slip away." He sniffed.
I felt a droplet meeting my forehead.
Gabriel was crying.
"I need you," he whispered. "Comeback to me. I need you.
C.L.Stone
#30. Stairs. Gray halls. Nye sniffed the odors, separating one from another: lavatory disinfectant, alcohol, dead cigars. Beyond
Truman Capote
#31. OHMYGOD. I hate myself right now. I think I also just blatantly sniffed him!
Anne Eliot
#32. Hasty and reckless, just like a human." He sniffed, staring straight at Ash, now. "But ... I would have thought that you knew better, prince."
-Grimalkin
Julie Kagawa
#33. I appreciated everything you gave me." He picked up the can of olives and sniffed at them, wary of being tricked again. "Although I didn't deserve any of it.
Marissa Meyer
#34. He sniffed her. The rubbery black nose inhaled deeply as it passed back and forth over her face, along her throat, her ears. Jeez, it was like being vacuumed-only most Hoovers didn't have the potential to bite her face off.
Dani Harper
#35. The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.
Vivian Vande Velde
#36. The Steppenwolf, however, first threw up his sharp, closely cropped head and sniffed around nervously before he either made any answer or announced his name. "Oh, it smells good here," he said, and at that he smiled and my aunt smiled too.
Hermann Hesse
#37. A pack of five dogs, as variable in size and shape as humans, trotted in a veering path toward the two men; they sniffed and growled and nipped at one another, then broke into a lope down the street, with the smallest mutt in the lead.
Victor Robert Lee
#38. The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint.
Harper Lee
#39. So nice to see you, human," a voice purred from an overhead branch. Grimalkin sniffed, looking from me to Keirran, and smiled. "How amusing that you are both here. The queen is not at all happy with either of you.
Julie Kagawa
#40. Now, then, young lady. Which of these gentlemen will you marry?"
"This one." She squeezed [his] arm.
The vicar inspected [him] and sniffed. "Doesnt look that much different from the other one."
"Nevertheless"- she fought to remain sober-faced- "this is the man I want.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#41. The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.
Frederic Chopin
#42. He also thinks there's something in the Carpathian woman's chemistry that makes it impossible for the female chromosome to beat out the male."
"Wouldn't you know he'd think it was the woman," Shea sniffed contemptuously.
Christine Feehan
#43. She had learned fear now. And her mind sniffed about like a rat looking for an escape.
John Steinbeck
#44. Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.
Laini Taylor
#45. Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away.
Umber sniffed. "One of his lesser poems. Come, Hap.
P.W. Catanese
#46. Glancing round to see that no one was watching, I sniffed at it. The leather binding, soft and supple, was pungent, but it was the pages that interested me. They smelt nourishing, like new-baked bread
Linda Proud
#47. I think it would dismay them to know what it takes to feed you. Not to mention that you could empty their cellars of beer and wine in a single night.' Eragon said.
I would never, Saphira sniffed. Maybe in two nights.
Christopher Paolini
#48. When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.
Lorene Cary
#49. You never sleep," Mick said. "Beside the point. I might've been busy doing other things." "Like jacking off?" "I have people who do that for me," Prophet sniffed.
S.E. Jakes
#50. The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he thought. I'm cooking! He sniffed at the air. And I smell delicious!
Adam Gidwitz
#51. 'You remember asking me if I'd ever begged?'
I wiped the corner of my eyes, sniffed. 'Is this about to get kinky?'
Josh Lanyon
#52. Yes. But the Brahmins don't just cure people. They are also teachers, lawyers, priests, basically any intellectual profession.' 'Talented people,' sniffed Shiva.
Amish Tripathi
#53. Dorothea sniffed and looked around the room, her distaste clear. "Try to be polite, Mother," Marjorie said. "I am always polite." "Then try to be nice.
Jane Goodger
#54. Listen, girl," Aelius sniffed. "The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of words. A girl with a story to tell.
Jay Kristoff
#55. He reached down and picked up the ear and threw it at a stray. The dog sniffed it, snapped it up and wandered off down the street, chewing.
Michael Kazepis
#56. I thought he'd pick me, I know he has kids, but when it came down to it, I really thought he'd pick me."
Tears rolled down her face and her nose ran. She sniffed.
"I know I'm selfish"
"You're human"
"I wanted him to abandon his children
Anna McPartlin
#57. My thanks, m'lady." He reached for the bowl and sniffed the pottage, followed by a cringe.
She bit her fingernail. "Oh dear, I'm afraid I'm not much of a cook, either."
"Yer scones are right delicious." He took a bite. "Mm. This is no' near as bad as the last batch.
Amy Jarecki
#58. One person's view is not to be sniffed at. Everybody is entitled to have their view and people are entitled to have a different view from the view the [American] Government has arrived at and they're entitled to express their view.
Amanda Vanstone
#59. If it's softer than the ground and has a roof over it, I call it a bed. Dolorous Edd sniffed the air. I smell dung.
George R R Martin
#60. Vaughn raised an eyebrow at their guarded expressions. "What, do I smell like wolf now?" He sniffed at his arm. "Nope. I smell like my gorgeous Red." A slow smile as he mentioned his mate and walked in.
Nalini Singh
#61. Pain," she sniffed. "A human can override any nerve in the body.
Frank Herbert
#62. Some who deserve failure do not achieve it," he sniffed. "Some who deserve nothing are given the world.
Catherynne M Valente
#63. Damn, Ian was already there. I braced myself as he came out from behind the RV. He sniffed, his nose wrinkling. Then he looked over me and my blonde captive, grinning.
"Managed to squeeze in a golden shower along the way? How lecherous, I'm impressed."
"Save it" I said crisply.
Jeaniene Frost
#64. The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at
Dean Cavanagh
#65. Freedom!' Mrs. Lynde sniffed. 'Freedom! Don't talk like a Yankee, Anne.
L.M. Montgomery
#66. Bullshit. We belong together." Echo sniffed and the sound tore at me. I softened my voice."Look at me, baby. I know you love me. Three nights ago you were willing to offer everything to me. There is no way you can walk away from us.
Katie McGarry
#67. ...a standing ovation from five-year-olds is not to be sniffed at.
Jasper Fforde
#68. Joe certainly didn't seem concerned with his own enlightenment, but he did seem more intelligent than the average muscle neck. Then he raised his arm, bent his head, and sniffed his pit.
Gabrielle looked at the plates in her hands. She should have used paper.
Rachel Gibson
#69. He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, I have learned never to say, 'Never again.
Tracy Kidder
#70. I like pink."
Lucius sniffed. "It's just red's sorry, weak cousin.
Beth Fantaskey
#71. Yours is ... il sent comme lavande."
Is that French for 'You stink'?"
It means 'lavender'."
Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled more like a grape Popsicle.
Lynn Viehl
#72. Finally." The cat sniffed and gave me a look of triumph. "I never thought I would see the day when a human said something sensible.
Julie Kagawa
#73. Jasnah sniffed. Your tutors were idiots. Youthful immaturity is one of the cosmere's great catalysts for change, Shallan.
Brandon Sanderson
#74. Why do you need to see him? (Remi)
Wolf business, and the last time I sniffed, which I'm trying real hard not to do 'cause the stench of you assholes is rough on my heightened sense of smell, you're a bear. Grab his hide and send it over. (Fury)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#75. He sniffed his armpits just to see if they were rank, but they weren't. Let's hear it for twenty-first century deodorant.
Lisa Marie Rice
#76. Terminus sniffed. I guard borders. I don't kill giants. It's not in my job description.
Rick Riordan
#77. Mosca sniffed at perfection. Perfection had no pulse and no heart.
Frances Hardinge
#78. and wasn't it an awful dangerous thing, a text message, because once you pressed that little send button, that was it. Like pulling a trigger of a shotgun and sending a pellet into a little rabbit's brain as he sniffed the sweet spring air. You couldn't undo it. You couldn't ever take it back.
Donal Ryan
#79. She pulled the cork and sniffed it. "What's in it?" "Sunlight," I said. "And a smile, and a question.
Patrick Rothfuss
#80. A painting is not made to be sniffed.
Rembrandt
#81. I have spent
or wasted
my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.
Brock Yates
#83. Houses are like boats," Aunt May had sniffed. "They should always keep their original names.
Rachel Hawkins
#84. Sam sniffed the sea air. He had years of experience dealing with prickly personalities. I'll get them on board and get it done!
Gary Chapman
#85. What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever.
Virginia Woolf
#86. Faber sniffed the book. Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy.
Ray Bradbury
#87. When the newborn sniffed strangely at her chest, she stared into its eyes and saw a world only two days old. Those two and a half kilograms righted her, turned her vantage to a future kinder than experience had taught her to expect.
Anthony Marra
#88. Maybe I should drive," Troy said. "She knows what she's doing," Mad Rogan said. I sniffed. "What?" "The fragrance of a genuine compliment from Mad Rogan. So rare and sweet.
Ilona Andrews
#89. The dog sniffed at the bonfire like a ship with a wet nose docking at a foreign port. -Mgru
Stephen Moles
#90. Yep," I said proudly, and kind of sniffed like Barney Fife when he was allowed to load his pistol.
Ronnie Ray Jenkins
#91. He sniffed until the long hairs of his mustache had been sucked up into his nose and out of his leafy ears." - Bats 2015
Fred Barnett
#92. I thought you were dead," Bera breathed.
Cadsuane sniffed irritably. "I am growing tired of hearing that. The next imbecile I hear it from is going to yelp for a week.
Robert Jordan
#93. You twist logic to your own purposes." "It's a lawyer's duty," sniffed Phloxia,
Rachel Hartman
#94. Perfectly good fruit, simply in being bumped about by chance, indifferently sniffed at, idly handled and overlooked, is sometimes gradually made unfit for those who would otherwise choose it. So it is with lovers.
James Guida
#95. Griffin? You ever heard of knocking?"
Griffin sniffed and tucked his chin-length hair behind his ears. "We're family, dude, I don't need to knock."
I sighed, not sure if Kellan could argue that point or not - not since Griffin had impregnated my sister. He really was family now. Lord help me.
S.C. Stephens
#96. Alice looked at the sky and sniffed at the heavens. Night seemed to swallow her. It was true, then, her ancient, girlish understanding. Grief is like space walking. It is nothing terrestrial. Laws of gravity alter, and bodies tilt and float away.
Gail Jones
#97. You sniffed her ass, didn't you?
Conall didn't even bother hiding his grin.
Shelly Laurenston
#98. What's that smell?" Reynolds asked.
That smell is the stuff they grow mushrooms in."
DeForrest sniffed the air. "Shit?" he asked.
Captain Suzie shrugged. "Manure.
David Wellington
#99. Well, looks like you won't be reaching nirvana anytime soon."
She pushed a stray lock of hair off her forehead and sniffed. "Yes, I suppose that's true. I guess I'll just have to settle for a trip to Idaho.
Beth Hoffman
#100. She can't make me," Gansey said.
"She doesn't have to," Ronan sniffed. "Mama's boy."
"Dream me a solution."
"Don't have to. Nature already gave you a spine. You know what I say? Fuck Washington.
Maggie Stiefvater
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