Smell Quotes

• I love the smell of diapers; I even like when they're wet and you smell them all warm like a baked good. I love the smell of Balmex. Love it.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Smell
  • Diapers

• It is kind of cliche to say you like a man to smell like a man, but I really do. My husband can go three or four days without taking a shower and the man never smells.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Man
  • Husband
  • Smell

• Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Desire
  • Memories
  • Smell

• The Chanel woman? I don't even need to see; I smell her from round the corner.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Woman
  • See
  • Smell

• I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Heaven
  • Rose
  • Smell

• There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Paper
  • Sacred
  • Libraries

• God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's. Just like a seraph you smile to people And arrows moan in the slow arteries. After a sleepless night the arms get weaker And deeply equal to you are the friend and foe. Smells like Florence in the frost, and in each Sudden sound is the whole rainbow. Tenderly light the lips, and the shadow's golden Near the sunken eyes. Here the night has sparked This brilliant likeness - and from the dark night Only just one thing - the eyes - are growing dark.

  

  Marina Tsvetaeva
  • People
  • Night
  • Growing

• The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Character
  • Faithful
  • Counsellors

• You hang out with trash and you start to smell like garbage.

  

  Caroline Manzo
  • Garbage
  • Trash
  • Hang Out

• Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Death
  • Flower
  • Relation

• Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Nature
  • Past
  • Scent

• They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Women
  • I Love
  • Smell

• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Miles
  • Transport
  • Wizards

• The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Remember
  • Difficult
  • Loving

• I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Trying
  • Walking
  • Blood

• The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Blood

• The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.

  

  Camilla Gibb
  • Home
  • Fear
  • Familiarity

• Hay smells different to lovers and horses.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Different
  • Horse
  • Lovers

• Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Said
  • Wounded
  • Officers

• But one thing she Rachel did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Believe
  • Taste
  • Courses

• A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later.

  

  Ryunosuke Satoro
  • Wind
  • Stills
  • Lips

• Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Food
  • Mysterious
  • Hot

• It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Door
  • Doors

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