“ Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it, and that is all. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ We must not inquire too curiously into motives.... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read. ”
- Christina G. Rossetti- Copy
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“ The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath Was sweeter, in the blast of death, Than all the lavish fragrance of the time. ”
- James Montgomery- Copy
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“ It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley- Copy
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“ It is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men. ”
- Frank Harris- Copy
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“ Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself. ”
- James Van Der Zee- Copy
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“ The Good are better made by Ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still. ”
- Samuel Rogers- Copy
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“ Virtue is like precious odors — most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme,Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay;Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime,For oh, it is not always May! ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
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“ There was a strong odor of alcohol at the scene and inside the vehicle. ”
- James Wilson- Copy
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“ When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden. ”
- Carlos Santana- Copy
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“ Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling, and breathe forth their sweetest odours… ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
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“ I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ The Old Woman and the Physician An old woman having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician to heal them, and made this bargain with him in the presence of witnesses: that if he should cure her blindness, he should receive from her a sum of money; but if her infirmity remained, she should give him nothing… ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul! ”
- Jules Verne- Copy
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“ A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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