Fragrant Quotes

• Virtue is like precious odors - most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Virtue
  • Crushed
  • incensed

• Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Adversity
  • Discover
  • Prosperity

• Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May: Waiting for the pleasant rambles Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles, Where the woodbine alternating, Scent the dewy way; Ah! my heart is weary, waiting, Waiting for the May.

  

  Denis Florence MacCarthy
  • May
  • Waiting
  • Pleasant

• When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.

  

  Anna Thomas
  • Believe
  • Bread
  • Fragrant

• Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Pleasure
  • Possibility
  • Fragrant

• A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Character
  • Person
  • Beauty